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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2008-06-29 22:28:20 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2008-06-29 22:28:20 (GMT)
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Prepare Tcl's docs for life as 8.6 (remove out of date change bars, fix
typedefs, add a few missing bits)
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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: SplitList.3,v 1.13 2007/12/13 15:22:32 dgp Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: SplitList.3,v 1.14 2008/06/29 22:28:24 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH Tcl_SplitList 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ Information about \fIsrc\fR. Must be value returned by previous
call to \fBTcl_ScanElement\fR, possibly OR-ed
with \fBTCL_DONT_USE_BRACES\fR.
.BE
-
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
These procedures may be used to disassemble and reassemble Tcl lists.
@@ -166,7 +165,6 @@ used to generate a portion of an argument for a Tcl command.
In this case, surrounding \fIsrc\fR with curly braces would cause
the command not to be parsed correctly.
.PP
-.VS 8.5
By default, \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR will use quoting in its output
to be sure the first character of an element is not the hash
character
@@ -178,12 +176,10 @@ is not necessary. When the caller can be sure that the element is
not the first element of a list, it can disable quoting of the leading
hash character by OR-ing the flag value returned by \fBTcl_ScanElement\fR
with \fBTCL_DONT_QUOTE_HASH\fR.
-.VE 8.5
.PP
\fBTcl_ScanCountedElement\fR and \fBTcl_ConvertCountedElement\fR are
the same as \fBTcl_ScanElement\fR and \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR, except
the length of string \fIsrc\fR is specified by the \fIlength\fR
argument, and the string may contain embedded nulls.
-
.SH KEYWORDS
backslash, convert, element, list, merge, split, strings