[Cmake] regular expressions with special symbols

[Iker Arizmendi]

I think you need to escape the period with two
backslashes, not one.

Iker


Eric Wing wrote:
> I need to write a small macro which needs to check if
> a file extension exists in a string, and if so, what
> that extension is.
> 
> I would like to do some kind of check using something
> like *.cpp, but the '.' is a special symbol. I tried
> using a backslash to escape the symbol, but it didn't
> seem to work.
> 
> Is there a different way to escape characters with
> CMake?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
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Iker Arizmendi
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