Has nobody else notice this particular language inconsistency?
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:12 PM, James Bigler <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running into this again, and I trawled through the mailing list, and > according to Bill (4/11/2009 - managing lists with space separated > elements), I should be able to get a list from a string with a single > command. > > If you want to convert a string to a list you can do it like this: > > set(list ${string}) > > That will make the space separated list string into a ; separated list. > If you want to keep string a string you need quotes: > set(newstring "${string}"). > > It doesn't seem to work that way though, so perhaps I'm missing something. > > Here's my test program: > > function(print_list name) > list(LENGTH ${name} length_of_list) > message("${name} has ${length_of_list} items") > set(count 0) > foreach(i ${${name}}) > message("${name}[${count}] = ${i}") > math(EXPR count "${count} + 1") > endforeach() > endfunction() > > set(mylist a b c) > set(mystring "a b c") > set(mylist_from_string ${mystring}) > > print_list(mylist) > print_list(mystring) > print_list(mylist_from_string) > > And here's what I get when I run it: > > cmake -P list-from-string.cmake > > mylist has 3 items > mylist[0] = a > mylist[1] = b > mylist[2] = c > mystring has 1 items > mystring[0] = a b c > mylist_from_string has 1 items > mylist_from_string[0] = a b c > >
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