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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2004-05-03 14:10:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2004-05-03 14:10:57 (GMT) |
| commit | c93d43b09e9ff216708a0b9eba7f666376e0c06b (patch) | |
| tree | 12282b238f01087404b43d49a8be1c2759f999a1 /Source/cmStringCommand.h | |
| parent | 781a1eaaf9fbb103a750194ff0fd7fde45db6d8a (diff) | |
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ENH: Documented use of \1 syntax in replace expression.
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diff --git a/Source/cmStringCommand.h b/Source/cmStringCommand.h index ed28b4b..d392a3d 100644 --- a/Source/cmStringCommand.h +++ b/Source/cmStringCommand.h @@ -92,7 +92,10 @@ public: "possible and store the matches in the output variable as a list.\n" "REGEX REPLACE will match the regular expression as many times as " "possible and substitute the replacement expression for the match " - "in the output.\n" + "in the output. The replace expression may refer to paren-delimited " + "subexpressions of the match using \\1, \\2, ..., \\9. Note that " + "two backslashes (\\\\1) are required in CMake code to get a " + "backslash through argument parsing.\n" "COMPARE EQUAL/NOTEQUAL/LESS/GREATER will compare the strings and " "store true or false in the output variable.\n" "ASCII will convert all numbers into corresponding ASCII characters.\n" |