# CACHE

New in version 3.13.

Operator to read cache variables.

Use the syntax `$CACHE{VAR}` to read cache entry `VAR`. See the cmake-language(7) variables documentation for more complete documentation of the interaction of normal variables and cache entries.

When evaluating Variable References of the form `${VAR}`, CMake first searches for a normal variable with that name, and if not found CMake will search for a cache entry with that name. The `$CACHE{VAR}` syntax can be used to do direct cache lookup and ignore any existing normal variable.

See the `set()` and `unset()` commands to see how to write or remove cache variables.