On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Haïkel Guémar <karlthered@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > AFAIK, CMake does not have multi-line regex, so it doesn't work. If you > find a better trick, please share it :-] Denis's email client replied to the list and me and I didn't catch that gmail only replied to him directly so there was a bit of an exchange that was off list. Here's the reult: I got it working but I'm not entirely happy with how I had to do it. Here's the final code: string(REGEX MATCH "const int TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = ([0-9]+);" _TMP_major "${_contents}") string(REGEX REPLACE ".*([0-9]+).*" "\\1" _OUT_major "${_TMP_major}") string(REGEX MATCH "const int TIXML_MINOR_VERSION = ([0-9]+);" _TMP_minor "${_contents}") string(REGEX REPLACE ".*([0-9]+).*" "\\1" _OUT_minor "${_TMP_minor}") string(REGEX MATCH "const int TIXML_PATCH_VERSION = ([0-9]+);" _TMP_patch "${_contents}") string(REGEX REPLACE ".*([0-9]+).*" "\\1" _OUT_patch "${_TMP_patch}") I think it was the lines ending with a semi-colon that was causing the problem. Apparently ".*" doesn't match that. I still don't know why it mas matching the entire file up to the correct line... Thanks all! Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel