Question

Why doesn’t the following command work?

SET(MY_LIST a b c d)
LIST(GET ${MY_LIST} 0 HEAD)
MESSAGE("HEAD = ${HEAD}")

I want it to assign a to HEAD but instead I’m getting NOTFOUND.

I have already tried surrounding ${MY_LIST} with double quotes and changing the index to 1 instead of 0 (don’t know why someone would do that but it didn’t hurt to try).

Answer 1

The list commands require an unsubstituted variable as the second argument, i.e.:

set (MY_LIST a b c d)
list (GET MY_LIST 0 HEAD)
message ("HEAD = ${HEAD}")