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<span id="command:list"></span><h1>list<a class="headerlink" href="#list" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</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>
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<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>
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