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    Source sweep: Use cmStrCat for string concatenation · 9b334397
    Sebastian Holtermann authored
    This patch is generated by a python script that uses regular expressions to
    search for string concatenation patterns of the kind
    
    ```
    std::string str = <ARG0>;
    str += <ARG1>;
    str += <ARG2>;
    ...
    ```
    
    and replaces them with a single `cmStrCat` call
    
    ```
    std::string str = cmStrCat(<ARG0>, <ARG1>, <ARG2>, ...);
    ```
    
    If any `<ARGX>` is itself a concatenated string of the kind
    
    ```
    a + b + c + ...;
    ```
    
    then `<ARGX>` is split into multiple arguments for the `cmStrCat` call.
    
    If there's a sequence of literals in the `<ARGX>`, then all literals in the
    sequence are concatenated and merged into a single literal argument for
    the `cmStrCat` call.
    
    Single character strings are converted to single char arguments for
    the `cmStrCat` call.
    
    `std::to_string(...)` wrappings are removed from `cmStrCat` arguments,
    because it supports numeric types as well as string types.
    
    `arg.substr(x)` arguments to `cmStrCat` are replaced with
    `cm::string_view(arg).substr(x)`
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