| description | Learn more about: filterout, filterouti NMAKE functions | ||||
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| title | filterout, filterouti NMAKE functions | ||||
| ms.date | 9/30/2021 | ||||
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Evaluates to a list of items that don't match any patterns.
$(filterout filters,input)
$(filterouti filters,input)filters
A list of one or more patterns to filter by.
input
The list to be filtered.
A list of all of the items in input that don't match any patterns in filters.
filterouti is the case-insensitive version of filterout.
This macro function is available starting in Visual Studio 2022, in NMAKE version 14.30 or later.
$(filterout He%,Hello Hey Hi) # Evaluates to "Hi" - "Hello" and "Hey" match the filter
$(filterout %y %i,Hello Hey Hi) # Evaluates to "Hello" - items are kept if they don't match any filters, "Hey" and "Hi" each match one filter
$(filterout H%,Hello Hey Hi) # Evaluates to "" - each of the items matched the filter
$(filterout he%,Hello Hey Hi) # Evaluates to "Hello Hey Hi" - filterout is case-sensitive
$(filterouti he%,Hello Hey Hi) # Evaluates to "Hi" - filterouti is case-insensitiveMacros and NMAKE
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filter, filteri