[CMake] File names with unbalanced square brackets

[Allen Barnett]

Hi David: Per your comment on the SO thread about escaping the ['s with a
backslash:You mean something like this:

file( GLOB FILES "*" )
string( REPLACE "[" "\\[" FILES_UPD "${FILES}" )

That doesn't appear to work. I still get everything past the first [ run
together in the foreach.

Thanks,
Allen

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:09 AM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:

> "A single pair of square brackets with ; inside have also long been
> used to designate registry [key;value] pairs on Windows."
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/36085151/236192
>
>
> HTH,
> David C.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Allen Barnett <allenbarnett5 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Petr: You're right! If I rename "c" to "c]", it treats the whole
> > "/home/allen/test/b[;/home/allen/test/c]" as an element of the list. The
> > other file names are correctly split apart.
> > Thanks,
> > Allen
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Allen.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure whether it's documented, but CMake interprets square
> brackets
> >> as escaping the semi-colon character (which means a semi-colon in square
> >> brackets will not work as a list item separator). You will probably
> have to
> >> translate the file names for CMake processing by replacing [ and ] with
> a
> >> different string, and replacing it back just before use outside of
> CMake.
> >>
> >> Petr
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Allen Barnett <allenbarnett5 at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I inherited a set of files with somewhat unusual file names. In
> >>> particular, there were a couple of files whose names included a single
> >>> square bracket character. I processed these files with the file( GLOB
> ...)
> >>> command and then iterated over the resulting list with foreach.
> However, the
> >>> foreach command does not seem to break the resulting list apart
> correctly.
> >>> To make this concrete, I have a directory with files named "a", "b[",
> and
> >>> "c". file( GLOB FILES "*" ) returns the list:
> >>>
> >>> /home/allen/test/b[;/home/allen/test/c;/home/allen/test/a
> >>>
> >>> However,
> >>>
> >>> foreach( FILE ${FILES} )
> >>>   message( ${FILE} )
> >>> endforeach()
> >>>
> >>> just prints the same thing. That is, foreach does not split FILES into
> >>> separate pieces. If I rename "b[" to "b]" I see the same behavior. If I
> >>> rename "b[" to "b[]" (or even "b]["), then foreach successfully splits
> FILES
> >>> into the individual file names.
> >>>
> >>> I'm using CMake 3.3.2. I see the same thing on linux and windows.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Allen
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Powered by www.kitware.com
> >>>
> >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at:
> >>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
> >>>
> >>> Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For
> more
> >>> information on each offering, please visit:
> >>>
> >>> CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html
> >>> CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html
> >>> CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html
> >>>
> >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
> >>>
> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Powered by www.kitware.com
> >
> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at:
> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
> >
> > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more
> > information on each offering, please visit:
> >
> > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html
> > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html
> > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html
> >
> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
> >
> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/attachments/20160318/e223e374/attachment-0001.html>