[CMake] STRING(REPLACE eats semi-colons

[JD Smith]

On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> JD Smith wrote:
>>
>> set( f "this; ...is: a; test")
>> MESSAGE(${f})
>> STRING(REPLACE is was f ${f})
>> MESSAGE(${f})
>>
>> Probably to do with the syntax for lists, but is there a way to  
>> avoid STRING(REPLACE from eating semi-colons?  I'm trying to  
>> replace a sed call with pure CMAKE, but in text replacing on an  
>> XML file, it's doing damage.
> The problem is in the message command.
>
> Try message("${f}")

Thanks, I discovered that just after writing.  In my (real) case, it  
was:

  FILE(WRITE ${file} "${_contents}")

JD