[Cmake] FILE command

[John Biddiscombe]

got a bounce from cmake.org, trying www.cmake.org instead...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Biddiscombe=20
> Sent: 18 July 2003 08:56
> To: 'Andy Cedilnik'; Brad King
> Cc: CMake
> Subject: RE: [Cmake] FILE command
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> Superb, thanks. I've just updated from cvs and the=20
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> FILE(WRITE filename AVersionNumber)
> ...
> FILE(READ filename AnotherVersionNumber)
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> STRING(COMPARE EQUAL "${AnotherVersionNumber}"=20
> "${AVersionNumber}" UPTODATE)
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> is working as I'd expected.
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> ....
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> > So, any thought of FILE(READ?
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> well. It seems to be fine from my point of view now. Is it=20
> adding a CR/LF, if so, it shouldn't really.
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> I would like to add a couple of new STRING commands...
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> STRING(NUMBEROFLINES ABIGSTRING N)  would set N to the number of lines
> STRING(LINE N stringin result)      would extract the N'th=20
> line into a new variable
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> and would allow looping over a file extracting lines and getting info
> FILE(READ filename ABIGSTRING)
> STRING(NUMBEROFLINES ABIGSTRING line0)
> STRING(LINE 0 ABIGSTRING line0)
> STRING(LINE 1 ABIGSTRING line1)
> etc
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> I'm looking at this because the powers that be are using a=20
> non-cmake configuration process and I would like to extract=20
> info from the config files and use it to run cmake on the system.
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> is anything like this already planned. In which case would it=20
> be significantly different?
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> thanks=20
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> JB
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