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@@ -207,84 +207,81 @@ but if duplicates are encountered, only the first instance is preserved.
[OUTPUT_VARIABLE <output variable>])
Transforms the list by applying an action to all or, by specifying a
-``<SELECTOR>``, to the selected elements of the list, storing result in-place
-or in the specified output variable.
+``<SELECTOR>``, to the selected elements of the list, storing the result
+in-place or in the specified output variable.
.. note::
- ``TRANSFORM`` sub-command does not change the number of elements of the
+ The ``TRANSFORM`` sub-command does not change the number of elements in the
list. If a ``<SELECTOR>`` is specified, only some elements will be changed,
- the other ones will remain same as before the transformation.
+ the other ones will remain the same as before the transformation.
-``<ACTION>`` specify the action to apply to the elements of list.
-The actions have exactly the same semantics as sub-commands of
-:command:`string` command.
-
-The ``<ACTION>`` may be one of:
+``<ACTION>`` specifies the action to apply to the elements of the list.
+The actions have exactly the same semantics as sub-commands of the
+:command:`string` command. ``<ACTION>`` must be one of the following:
``APPEND``, ``PREPEND``: Append, prepend specified value to each element of
the list.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> <APPEND|PREPEND> <value> ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> <APPEND|PREPEND> <value> ...)
``TOUPPER``, ``TOLOWER``: Convert each element of the list to upper, lower
characters.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> <TOLOWER|TOUPPER> ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> <TOLOWER|TOUPPER> ...)
``STRIP``: Remove leading and trailing spaces from each element of the
list.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> STRIP ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> STRIP ...)
``GENEX_STRIP``: Strip any
:manual:`generator expressions <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` from each
element of the list.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> GENEX_STRIP ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> GENEX_STRIP ...)
``REPLACE``: Match the regular expression as many times as possible and
substitute the replacement expression for the match for each element
of the list
(Same semantic as ``REGEX REPLACE`` from :command:`string` command).
-.. code-block:: cmake
-
- list(TRANSFORM <list> REPLACE <regular_expression>
- <replace_expression> ...)
+ .. code-block:: cmake
-``<SELECTOR>`` select which elements of the list will be transformed. Only one
-type of selector can be specified at a time.
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> REPLACE <regular_expression>
+ <replace_expression> ...)
-The ``<SELECTOR>`` may be one of:
+``<SELECTOR>`` determines which elements of the list will be transformed.
+Only one type of selector can be specified at a time. When given,
+``<SELECTOR>`` must be one of the following:
``AT``: Specify a list of indexes.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> AT <index> [<index> ...] ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> AT <index> [<index> ...] ...)
``FOR``: Specify a range with, optionally, an increment used to iterate over
the range.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> FOR <start> <stop> [<step>] ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> FOR <start> <stop> [<step>] ...)
``REGEX``: Specify a regular expression. Only elements matching the regular
expression will be transformed.
-.. code-block:: cmake
+ .. code-block:: cmake
- list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> REGEX <regular_expression> ...)
+ list(TRANSFORM <list> <ACTION> REGEX <regular_expression> ...)
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