Hi all,

In a number of standard CMake modules I encountered the following line:

  IF("${VARIABLE}" MATCHES "^${VARIABLE}$")

Can anyone explain the rationale of this conditional to me. To my
cluttered mind this seems to be an "always-true" condition.

Best regards,
Marcel Loose.


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