summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/3.8.2/doc/cmake/html/command/list.html
blob: 7559618781c0966591639927164bd0d7ff8c23c0 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    
  <title>list &mdash; CMake 3.8.2 Documentation</title>

    
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/cmake.css" type="text/css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
    
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
        URL_ROOT:    '../',
        VERSION:     '3.8.2',
        COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
        FILE_SUFFIX: '.html',
        HAS_SOURCE:  true,
        SOURCELINK_SUFFIX: '.txt'
      };
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../_static/cmake-favicon.ico"/>
    <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" />
    <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" />
    <link rel="next" title="load_cache" href="load_cache.html" />
    <link rel="prev" title="link_libraries" href="link_libraries.html" /> 
  </head>
  <body role="document">
    <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
      <h3>Navigation</h3>
      <ul>
        <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
          <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
             accesskey="I">index</a></li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="load_cache.html" title="load_cache"
             accesskey="N">next</a> |</li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="link_libraries.html" title="link_libraries"
             accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li>
  <li>
    <img src="../_static/cmake-logo-16.png" alt=""
         style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -2px" />
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://cmake.org/">CMake</a> &#187;
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../index.html">3.8.2 Documentation</a> &#187;
  </li>

          <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../manual/cmake-commands.7.html" accesskey="U">cmake-commands(7)</a> &#187;</li> 
      </ul>
    </div>  

    <div class="document">
      <div class="documentwrapper">
        <div class="bodywrapper">
          <div class="body" role="main">
            
  <div class="section" id="list">
<span id="command:list"></span><h1>list<a class="headerlink" href="#list" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>List operations.</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">LENGTH</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">output</span> <span class="n">variable</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">GET</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element</span> <span class="n">index</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element</span> <span class="n">index</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">]</span>
     <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">output</span> <span class="n">variable</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">APPEND</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FILTER</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">INCLUDE</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="n">EXCLUDE</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">REGEX</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">regular_expression</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">FIND</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">output</span> <span class="n">variable</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">INSERT</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element_index</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">element</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">REMOVE_ITEM</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">REMOVE_AT</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">index</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">REMOVE_DUPLICATES</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">REVERSE</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">SORT</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nb">list</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LENGTH</span></code> will return a given list&#8217;s length.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></code> will return list of elements specified by indices from the list.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">APPEND</span></code> will append elements to the list.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">FILTER</span></code> will include or remove items from the list that match the
mode&#8217;s pattern.
In <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REGEX</span></code> mode, items will be matched against the given regular expression.
For more information on regular expressions see also the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:string"></span><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#command:string" title="string"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal"><span class="pre">string()</span></code></a>
command.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">FIND</span></code> will return the index of the element specified in the list or -1
if it wasn&#8217;t found.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">INSERT</span></code> will insert elements to the list to the specified location.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_AT</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_ITEM</span></code> will remove items from the list.  The
difference is that <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_ITEM</span></code> will remove the given items, while
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_AT</span></code> will remove the items at the given indices.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_DUPLICATES</span></code> will remove duplicated items in the list.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REVERSE</span></code> reverses the contents of the list in-place.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">SORT</span></code> sorts the list in-place alphabetically.</p>
<p>The list subcommands <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">APPEND</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">INSERT</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">FILTER</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_AT</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_ITEM</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REMOVE_DUPLICATES</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REVERSE</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">SORT</span></code> may create new
values for the list within the current CMake variable scope.  Similar to the
<span class="target" id="index-0-command:set"></span><a class="reference internal" href="set.html#command:set" title="set"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal"><span class="pre">set()</span></code></a> command, the LIST command creates new variable values in the
current scope, even if the list itself is actually defined in a parent
scope.  To propagate the results of these operations upwards, use
<span class="target" id="index-1-command:set"></span><a class="reference internal" href="set.html#command:set" title="set"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal"><span class="pre">set()</span></code></a> with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PARENT_SCOPE</span></code>, <span class="target" id="index-2-command:set"></span><a class="reference internal" href="set.html#command:set" title="set"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal"><span class="pre">set()</span></code></a> with
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CACHE</span> <span class="pre">INTERNAL</span></code>, or some other means of value propagation.</p>
<p>NOTES: A list in cmake is a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">;</span></code> separated group of strings.  To create a
list the set command can be used.  For example, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set(var</span> <span class="pre">a</span> <span class="pre">b</span> <span class="pre">c</span> <span class="pre">d</span> <span class="pre">e)</span></code>
creates a list with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">a;b;c;d;e</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set(var</span> <span class="pre">&quot;a</span> <span class="pre">b</span> <span class="pre">c</span> <span class="pre">d</span> <span class="pre">e&quot;)</span></code> creates a
string or a list with one item in it.   (Note macro arguments are not
variables, and therefore cannot be used in LIST commands.)</p>
<p>When specifying index values, if <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;element</span> <span class="pre">index&gt;</span></code> is 0 or greater, it
is indexed from the beginning of the list, with 0 representing the
first list element.  If <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;element</span> <span class="pre">index&gt;</span></code> is -1 or lesser, it is indexed
from the end of the list, with -1 representing the last list element.
Be careful when counting with negative indices: they do not start from
0.  -0 is equivalent to 0, the first list element.</p>
</div>


          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation">
        <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
  <h4>Previous topic</h4>
  <p class="topless"><a href="link_libraries.html"
                        title="previous chapter">link_libraries</a></p>
  <h4>Next topic</h4>
  <p class="topless"><a href="load_cache.html"
                        title="next chapter">load_cache</a></p>
  <div role="note" aria-label="source link">
    <h3>This Page</h3>
    <ul class="this-page-menu">
      <li><a href="../_sources/command/list.rst.txt"
            rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li>
    </ul>
   </div>
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search">
  <h3>Quick search</h3>
    <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get">
      <div><input type="text" name="q" /></div>
      <div><input type="submit" value="Go" /></div>
      <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
      <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
    </form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="clearer"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
      <h3>Navigation</h3>
      <ul>
        <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
          <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
             >index</a></li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="load_cache.html" title="load_cache"
             >next</a> |</li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="link_libraries.html" title="link_libraries"
             >previous</a> |</li>
  <li>
    <img src="../_static/cmake-logo-16.png" alt=""
         style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -2px" />
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://cmake.org/">CMake</a> &#187;
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../index.html">3.8.2 Documentation</a> &#187;
  </li>

          <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../manual/cmake-commands.7.html" >cmake-commands(7)</a> &#187;</li> 
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="footer" role="contentinfo">
        &#169; Copyright 2000-2017 Kitware, Inc. and Contributors.
      Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.5.2.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>