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| author | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2005-12-16 11:12:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2005-12-16 11:12:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 6649ff8b06beb9b70bad5025f41bbfaf9f14c8c4 (patch) | |
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Minor clarification
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diff --git a/doc/binary.n b/doc/binary.n index 3caf872..1944749 100644 --- a/doc/binary.n +++ b/doc/binary.n @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: binary.n,v 1.27 2005/10/21 10:27:03 dkf Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: binary.n,v 1.28 2005/12/16 11:12:31 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH binary n 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -370,7 +370,9 @@ will return \fBabfdeghi\\000\\000j\fR. .PP The \fBbinary scan\fR command parses fields from a binary string, returning the number of conversions performed. \fIString\fR gives the -input to be parsed and \fIformatString\fR indicates how to parse it. +input bytes to be parsed (one byte per character, and characters not +representable as a byte have their high bits chopped) +and \fIformatString\fR indicates how to parse it. Each \fIvarName\fR gives the name of a variable; when a field is scanned from \fIstring\fR the result is assigned to the corresponding variable. |