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-rw-r--r--Source/cmSystemTools.cxx8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
index e9efdcc..3164d61 100644
--- a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
@@ -270,7 +270,13 @@ bool ReadAValue(std::string &res, const char *key)
void cmSystemTools::ExpandRegistryValues(std::string& source)
{
#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
- cmRegularExpression regEntry("\\[(HKEY[A-Za-z0-9_~\\:\\-\\(\\)\\.\\; ]*)\\]");
+ // Regular expression to match anything inside [...] that begins in HKEY.
+ // Note that there is a special rule for regular expressions to match a
+ // close square-bracket inside a list delimited by square brackets.
+ // The "[^]]" part of this expression will match any character except
+ // a close square-bracket. The ']' character must be the first in the
+ // list of characters inside the [^...] block of the expression.
+ cmRegularExpression regEntry("\\[(HKEY[^]]*)\\]");
// check for black line or comment
while (regEntry.find(source))