[Cmake] Regex question

[Dekeyser, Kris]

Posting to the mailing list is a good thing to do ;-) As I read my own email
I found the answer myself. Changing the regex into "^[ \t]*([A-Za-z_]+)[
\t]*$" made it work, of course.

Sorry, Kris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dekeyser, Kris [mailto:Kris.Dekeyser at lms.be]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 12:04
> To: CMake (E-mail)
> Subject: [Cmake] Regex question
> 
> 
> I cannot get a regular expression to work the way I want. 
> I've read both the
> on-line FAQ and the book, but I cannot figure out what I'm 
> doing wrong.
> 
> I have the following string:
> "\b\t\bSTL\t\b\t"
> 
> (\b stands for space, \t for tab)
> 
> When I'm parsing the string with:
> STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^[ \t]*([A-Za-z_]*)[ \t]*$" "\\1" 
> Dependency ${line})
> 
> CMake errors with:
> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> :0:
> STRING sub-command REGEX, mode REPLACE regex "^[        
> ]*([A-Za-z_]*)[
> ]*$" matched an empty string.
> 
> and the Dependency variable is not set. Why? What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Parsing "\b\t\bpublic\t:\bSTL\b\t" with STRING(REGEX REPLACE 
> "^[ \t]*public[
> \t]*:[ \t]*([A-Za-z_]*)[ \t]*$" "\\1" Dependency ${line}) 
> yields the correct
> result, though.
> 
> - Kris
> 
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