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diff --git a/doc/SplitList.3 b/doc/SplitList.3 index 5726f86..3439f2e 100644 --- a/doc/SplitList.3 +++ b/doc/SplitList.3 @@ -5,10 +5,8 @@ '\" 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 1.9 2004/10/07 15:15:48 dkf Exp $ -'\" -.so man.macros .TH Tcl_SplitList 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" +.so man.macros .BS .SH NAME Tcl_SplitList, Tcl_Merge, Tcl_ScanElement, Tcl_ConvertElement, Tcl_ScanCountedElement, Tcl_ConvertCountedElement \- manipulate Tcl lists @@ -67,7 +65,6 @@ 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. @@ -82,15 +79,18 @@ also holds copies of all the list elements. It is the caller's responsibility to free up all of this storage. For example, suppose that you have called \fBTcl_SplitList\fR with the following code: +.PP .CS int argc, code; char *string; char **argv; \&... -code = Tcl_SplitList(interp, string, &argc, &argv); +code = \fBTcl_SplitList\fR(interp, string, &argc, &argv); .CE +.PP Then you should eventually free the storage with a call like the following: +.PP .CS Tcl_Free((char *) argv); .CE @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ include spaces between adjacent list elements. \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR uses one of two different approaches to handle the special characters in \fIsrc\fR. Wherever possible, it handles special characters by surrounding the string with braces. -This produces clean-looking output, but can't be used in some situations, +This produces clean-looking output, but cannot be used in some situations, such as when \fIsrc\fR contains unmatched braces. In these situations, \fBTcl_ConvertElement\fR handles special characters by generating backslash sequences for them. @@ -166,22 +166,23 @@ 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 (``#''). This is to be sure the first element of any list +character +.PQ # . +This is to be sure the first element of any list passed to \fBeval\fR is not mis-parsed as the beginning of a comment. When a list element is not the first element of a list, this quoting 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 "SEE ALSO" +Tcl_ListObjGetElements(3) .SH KEYWORDS backslash, convert, element, list, merge, split, strings |