[CMake] FILE command working

Johny Johny.Jose at cern.ch
Fri Jul 9 05:32:27 EDT 2010


On 07/09/2010 11:31 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
> On 9. Jul, 2010, at 11:24 , Johny wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I was working with the FILE(STRINGS filename lineList) and i discovered that i end up getting a list which has a lesser number of strings than the actual lines in the file. However this happens with only some files, i went through those but they seem to be regular files. When i count the no of new lines in the files i get the correct no of lines for the file.
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>> This has led me to believe that the FILE strings command is at fault somehow. How does it work?
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Johny
>>      
> Just an idea, but do these files contain mixed line endings (i.e. some lines end on \n, others on \r\n)?
>
> Michael
nope i checked for that too. Its not the case

Cheers!
Johny


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