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@@ -257,27 +257,31 @@ invocation as exactly one argument.
.. No code-block syntax highlighting in the following example
(escape \" not supported by our cmake.py)
-For example::
+For example:
- message("This is a quoted argument containing multiple lines.
- This is always one argument even though it contains a ; character.
- Both \\-escape sequences and ${variable} references are evaluated.
- The text does not end on an escaped double-quote like \".
- It does end in an unescaped double quote.
- ")
+.. code-block:: cmake
+
+ message("This is a quoted argument containing multiple lines.
+ This is always one argument even though it contains a ; character.
+ Both \\-escape sequences and ${variable} references are evaluated.
+ The text does not end on an escaped double-quote like \".
+ It does end in an unescaped double quote.
+ ")
.. No code-block syntax highlighting in the following example
(for conformity with the two above examples)
The final ``\`` on any line ending in an odd number of backslashes
is treated as a line continuation and ignored along with the
-immediately following newline character. For example::
+immediately following newline character. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: cmake
- message("\
- This is the first line of a quoted argument. \
- In fact it is the only line but since it is long \
- the source code uses line continuation.\
- ")
+ message("\
+ This is the first line of a quoted argument. \
+ In fact it is the only line but since it is long \
+ the source code uses line continuation.\
+ ")
.. note::
CMake versions prior to 3.0 do not support continuation with ``\``.