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authorstanton <stanton>1999-04-16 00:46:29 (GMT)
committerstanton <stanton>1999-04-16 00:46:29 (GMT)
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: string.n,v 1.2 1998/09/14 18:39:55 stanton Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: string.n,v 1.3 1999/04/16 00:46:36 stanton Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH string n 7.6 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -85,14 +85,22 @@ If \fIfirst\fR is less than zero then it is treated as if it were zero, and
if \fIlast\fR is greater than or equal to the length of the string then
it is treated as if it were \fBend\fR. If \fIfirst\fR is greater than
\fIlast\fR then an empty string is returned.
+.VS
.TP
\fBstring tolower \fIstring\fR
-Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that all upper case
-letters have been converted to lower case.
+Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that all upper (or title)
+case letters have been converted to lower case.
.TP
-\fBstring toupper \fIstring\fR
-Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that all lower case
-letters have been converted to upper case.
+\fBstring totitle \fIstring\fR
+Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that the first character
+in \fIstring\fR is converted to its Unicode title case variant (or upper
+case if there is no title case variant) and the rest of the string is
+converted to lower case.
+.TP
+\fBstring toupper \fIstring\fR
+Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that all lower (or title)
+case letters have been converted to upper case.
+.VE
.TP
\fBstring trim \fIstring\fR ?\fIchars\fR?
Returns a value equal to \fIstring\fR except that any leading
@@ -114,18 +122,22 @@ trailing characters from the set given by \fIchars\fR are
removed.
If \fIchars\fR is not specified then white space is removed
(spaces, tabs, newlines, and carriage returns).
+.VS
.TP
\fBstring wordend \fIstring index\fR
-Returns the index of the character just after the last one in the
-word containing character \fIindex\fR of \fIstring\fR.
-A word is considered to be any contiguous range of alphanumeric
-or underscore characters, or any single character other than these.
+Returns the index of the character just after the last one in the word
+containing character \fIindex\fR of \fIstring\fR. A word is
+considered to be any contiguous range of alphanumeric (Unicode letters
+or decimal digits) or underscore (Unicode connector punctuation)
+characters, or any single character other than these.
.TP
\fBstring wordstart \fIstring index\fR
-Returns the index of the first character in the
-word containing character \fIindex\fR of \fIstring\fR.
-A word is considered to be any contiguous range of alphanumeric
-or underscore characters, or any single character other than these.
+Returns the index of the first character in the word containing
+character \fIindex\fR of \fIstring\fR. A word is considered to be any
+contiguous range of alphanumeric (Unicode letters or decimal digits)
+or underscore (Unicode connector punctuation) characters, or any
+single character other than these.
+.VE
.SH KEYWORDS
case conversion, compare, index, match, pattern, string, word