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I'm looking for a way to interpret a string as variable name in cmake.

Given:

set(MY_SECRET_VAR "foo")

# later only the name of the variable is known.
set(THE_NAME "MY_SECRET_VAR")

# Now i'm looking for a way to get the value "foo" from the name
# something like:
set(THE_VALUE "${THE_NAME}")

# THE_VALUE should be "foo"
Josh Crozier
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A second level of unwrapping: 

set(THE_VALUE "${${THE_NAME}}")
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