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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ .TH Tcl_Eval 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" .BS .SH NAME -Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalFile, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval, Tcl_VarEvalVA \- execute Tcl scripts +Tcl_EvalObjEx, Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_VarEval, Tcl_VarEvalVA \- execute Tcl scripts .SH SYNOPSIS .nf \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR @@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ int \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR(\fIinterp, objPtr, flags\fR) .sp int -\fBTcl_EvalFile\fR(\fIinterp, fileName\fR) -.sp -int \fBTcl_EvalObjv\fR(\fIinterp, objc, objv, flags\fR) .sp int @@ -31,12 +28,6 @@ int \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR(\fIinterp, script, numBytes, flags\fR) .sp int -\fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR(\fIinterp, script\fR) -.sp -int -\fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR(\fIinterp, objPtr\fR) -.sp -int \fBTcl_VarEval\fR(\fIinterp, part, part, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR) .sp int @@ -93,22 +84,6 @@ integer value originating in an extension. In addition, a result value or error message is left in \fIinterp\fR's result; it can be retrieved using \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR. .PP -\fBTcl_EvalFile\fR reads the file given by \fIfileName\fR and evaluates -its contents as a Tcl script. It returns the same information as -\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR. -If the file could not be read then a Tcl error is returned to describe -why the file could not be read. -The eofchar for files is -.QW \e32 -(^Z) for all platforms. If you require a -.QW ^Z -in code for string comparison, you can use -.QW \e032 -or -.QW \eu001a , -which will be safely substituted by the Tcl interpreter into -.QW ^Z . -.PP \fBTcl_EvalObjv\fR executes a single pre-parsed command instead of a script. The \fIobjc\fR and \fIobjv\fR arguments contain the values of the words for the Tcl command, one word in each value in @@ -128,23 +103,11 @@ might be a UTF-8 special code. The string is parsed and executed directly bytecodes. In situations where it is known that the script will never be executed again, \fBTcl_Eval\fR may be faster than \fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR. \fBTcl_Eval\fR returns a completion code and result just like -\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR. Note: for backward compatibility with versions before -Tcl 8.0, \fBTcl_Eval\fR copies the value result in \fIinterp\fR to -\fIinterp->result\fR (use is deprecated) where it can be accessed directly. - This makes \fBTcl_Eval\fR somewhat slower than \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR, which -does not do the copy. +\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR. .PP \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is an extended version of \fBTcl_Eval\fR that takes -additional arguments \fInumBytes\fR and \fIflags\fR. For the -efficiency reason given above, \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is generally preferred -over \fBTcl_Eval\fR. -.PP -\fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR and \fBTcl_GlobalEvalObj\fR are older procedures -that are now deprecated. They are similar to \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR and -\fBTcl_EvalObjEx\fR except that the script is evaluated in the global -namespace and its variable context consists of global variables only -(it ignores any Tcl procedures that are active). These functions are -equivalent to using the \fBTCL_EVAL_GLOBAL\fR flag (see below). +additional arguments \fInumBytes\fR and \fIflags\fR. \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR +is generally preferred over \fBTcl_Eval\fR. .PP \fBTcl_VarEval\fR takes any number of string arguments of any length, concatenates them into a single string, |