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diff --git a/Help/command/string.rst b/Help/command/string.rst index af18825..8ed0e86 100644 --- a/Help/command/string.rst +++ b/Help/command/string.rst @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ String operations. string(FIND <string> <substring> <output variable> [REVERSE]) string(TIMESTAMP <output variable> [<format string>] [UTC]) string(MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER <input string> <output variable>) + string(GENEX_STRIP <input string> <output variable>) + string(UUID <output variable> NAMESPACE <namespace> NAME <name> + TYPE <MD5|SHA1> <UPPER>) REGEX MATCH will match the regular expression once and store the match in the output variable. @@ -154,3 +157,17 @@ If no explicit <format string> is given it will default to: MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER will write a string which can be used as an identifier in C. + +``GENEX_STRIP`` will strip any +:manual:`generator expressions <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` from the +``input string`` and store the result in the ``output variable``. + +UUID creates a univerally unique identifier (aka GUID) as per RFC4122 +based on the hash of the combined values of <namespace> +(which itself has to be a valid UUID) and <name>. +The hash algorithm can be either ``MD5`` (Version 3 UUID) or +``SHA1`` (Version 5 UUID). +A UUID has the format ``xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx`` +where each `x` represents a lower case hexadecimal character. +Where required an uppercase representation can be requested +with the optional ``UPPER`` flag. |