[CMake] NSIS template variable substitution.

[Nils Gladitz]

On 04.06.2014 21:17, Rick McGuire wrote:
> I'm working on a custom NSIS template where I wish to accumulate a set 
> of NSIS commands in a list and then insert those commands into the 
> template file using a variable.
>
> I'm able to get the variable substituted, but unfortunately, the list 
> is getting inserted as a single line with semicolons inserted between 
> the list elements.  I need to have this inserted as a series of lines 
> rather than a single line.  Is there someway to control this 
> substitution?

> Or as an alternative, is it possible to convert a list of strings into 
> a single string with inserted newlines?
>

string(REPLACE ";" "\n" MY_OUTPUT "${MY_INPUT}") might work.
If the input uses semicolons for something other than list item 
separation it might be easier to not set up the content as a list at all.
Otherwise those semicolons might have to be escaped and you might have 
to use REGEX REPLACE instead of REPLACE so that it only replaces 
unescaped semicolons.

Nils