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-'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-'\"
-'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
-'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
-'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: StringObj.3,v 1.21 2007/10/28 14:17:39 dkf Exp $
-'\"
-.so man.macros
-.TH Tcl_StringObj 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
-.BS
-.SH NAME
-Tcl_NewStringObj, Tcl_NewUnicodeObj, Tcl_SetStringObj, Tcl_SetUnicodeObj, Tcl_GetStringFromObj, Tcl_GetString, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj, Tcl_GetUnicode, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetRange, Tcl_AppendToObj, Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObjVA, Tcl_AppendObjToObj, Tcl_SetObjLength, Tcl_ConcatObj, Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength \- manipulate Tcl objects as strings
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
-.sp
-Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR(\fIbytes, length\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR(\fIunicode, numChars\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, bytes, length\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, unicode, numChars\fR)
-.sp
-char *
-\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, lengthPtr\fR)
-.sp
-char *
-\fBTcl_GetString\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_UniChar *
-\fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, lengthPtr\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_UniChar *
-\fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_UniChar
-\fBTcl_GetUniChar\fR(\fIobjPtr, index\fR)
-.sp
-int
-\fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_GetRange\fR(\fIobjPtr, first, last\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, bytes, length\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_AppendUnicodeToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, unicode, numChars\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, appendObjPtr\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, string, string, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR(\fIobjPtr, argList\fR)
-.sp
-void
-\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR(\fIobjPtr, newLength\fR)
-.sp
-int
-\fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR(\fIobjPtr, newLength\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR(\fIobjc, objv\fR)
-.SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS "const Tcl_UniChar" *appendObjPtr in/out
-.AP "const char" *bytes in
-Points to the first byte of an array of UTF-8-encoded bytes
-used to set or append to a string object.
-This byte array may contain embedded null characters
-unless \fInumChars\fR is negative. (Applications needing null bytes
-should represent them as the two-byte sequence \fI\e700\e600\fR, use
-\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR to convert, or \fBTcl_NewByteArrayObj\fR if
-the string is a collection of uninterpreted bytes.)
-.AP int length in
-The number of bytes to copy from \fIbytes\fR when
-initializing, setting, or appending to a string object.
-If negative, all bytes up to the first null are used.
-.AP "const Tcl_UniChar" *unicode in
-Points to the first byte of an array of Unicode characters
-used to set or append to a string object.
-This byte array may contain embedded null characters
-unless \fInumChars\fR is negative.
-.AP int numChars in
-The number of Unicode characters to copy from \fIunicode\fR when
-initializing, setting, or appending to a string object.
-If negative, all characters up to the first null character are used.
-.AP int index in
-The index of the Unicode character to return.
-.AP int first in
-The index of the first Unicode character in the Unicode range to be
-returned as a new object.
-.AP int last in
-The index of the last Unicode character in the Unicode range to be
-returned as a new object.
-.AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in/out
-Points to an object to manipulate.
-.AP Tcl_Obj *appendObjPtr in
-The object to append to \fIobjPtr\fR in \fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR.
-.AP int *lengthPtr out
-If non-NULL, the location where \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR will store
-the length of an object's string representation.
-.AP "const char" *string in
-Null-terminated string value to append to \fIobjPtr\fR.
-.AP va_list argList in
-An argument list which must have been initialised using
-\fBva_start\fR, and cleared using \fBva_end\fR.
-.AP int newLength in
-New length for the string value of \fIobjPtr\fR, not including the
-final null character.
-.AP int objc in
-The number of elements to concatenate.
-.AP Tcl_Obj *objv[] in
-The array of objects to concatenate.
-.BE
-
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
-The procedures described in this manual entry allow Tcl objects to
-be manipulated as string values. They use the internal representation
-of the object to store additional information to make the string
-manipulations more efficient. In particular, they make a series of
-append operations efficient by allocating extra storage space for the
-string so that it does not have to be copied for each append.
-Also, indexing and length computations are optimized because the
-Unicode string representation is calculated and cached as needed.
-When using the \fBTcl_Append*\fR family of functions where the
-interpreter's result is the object being appended to, it is important
-to call Tcl_ResetResult first to ensure you are not unintentionally
-appending to existing data in the result object.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR create a new object
-or modify an existing object to hold a copy of the string given by
-\fIbytes\fR and \fIlength\fR. \fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR and
-\fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR create a new object or modify an existing
-object to hold a copy of the Unicode string given by \fIunicode\fR and
-\fInumChars\fR. \fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR
-return a pointer to a newly created object with reference count zero.
-All four procedures set the object to hold a copy of the specified
-string. \fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR free any
-old string representation as well as any old internal representation
-of the object.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetString\fR return an object's
-string representation. This is given by the returned byte pointer and
-(for \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR) length, which is stored in
-\fIlengthPtr\fR if it is non-NULL. If the object's UTF string
-representation is invalid (its byte pointer is NULL), the string
-representation is regenerated from the object's internal
-representation. The storage referenced by the returned byte pointer
-is owned by the object manager. It is passed back as a writable
-pointer so that extension author creating their own \fBTcl_ObjType\fR
-will be able to modify the string representation within the
-\fBTcl_UpdateStringProc\fR of their \fBTcl_ObjType\fR. Except for that
-limited purpose, the pointer returned by \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR
-or \fBTcl_GetString\fR should be treated as read-only. It is
-recommended that this pointer be assigned to a (const char *) variable.
-Even in the limited situations where writing to this pointer is
-acceptable, one should take care to respect the copy-on-write
-semantics required by \fBTcl_Obj\fR's, with appropriate calls
-to \fBTcl_IsShared\fR and \fBTcl_DuplicateObj\fR prior to any
-in-place modification of the string representation.
-The procedure \fBTcl_GetString\fR is used in the common case
-where the caller does not need the length of the string
-representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR return an object's
-value as a Unicode string. This is given by the returned pointer and
-(for \fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR) length, which is stored in
-\fIlengthPtr\fR if it is non-NULL. The storage referenced by the returned
-byte pointer is owned by the object manager and should not be modified by
-the caller. The procedure \fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR is used in the common case
-where the caller does not need the length of the unicode string
-representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetUniChar\fR returns the \fIindex\fR'th character in the
-object's Unicode representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetRange\fR returns a newly created object comprised of the
-characters between \fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR (inclusive) in the
-object's Unicode representation. If the object's Unicode
-representation is invalid, the Unicode representation is regenerated
-from the object's string representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR returns the number of characters (as opposed
-to bytes) in the string object.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR appends the data given by \fIbytes\fR and
-\fIlength\fR to the string representation of the object specified by
-\fIobjPtr\fR. If the object has an invalid string representation,
-then an attempt is made to convert \fIbytes\fR is to the Unicode
-format. If the conversion is successful, then the converted form of
-\fIbytes\fR is appended to the object's Unicode representation.
-Otherwise, the object's Unicode representation is invalidated and
-converted to the UTF format, and \fIbytes\fR is appended to the
-object's new string representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendUnicodeToObj\fR appends the Unicode string given by
-\fIunicode\fR and \fInumChars\fR to the object specified by
-\fIobjPtr\fR. If the object has an invalid Unicode representation,
-then \fIunicode\fR is converted to the UTF format and appended to the
-object's string representation. Appends are optimized to handle
-repeated appends relatively efficiently (it overallocates the string
-or Unicode space to avoid repeated reallocations and copies of
-object's string value).
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR, but it
-appends the string or Unicode value (whichever exists and is best
-suited to be appended to \fIobjPtr\fR) of \fIappendObjPtr\fR to
-\fIobjPtr\fR.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR
-except that it can be passed more than one value to append and
-each value must be a null-terminated string (i.e. none of the
-values may contain internal null characters). Any number of
-\fIstring\fR arguments may be provided, but the last argument
-must be a NULL pointer to indicate the end of the list.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR
-except that instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an
-argument list.
-.PP
-The \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR procedure changes the length of the
-string value of its \fIobjPtr\fR argument. If the \fInewLength\fR
-argument is greater than the space allocated for the object's
-string, then the string space is reallocated and the old value
-is copied to the new space; the bytes between the old length of
-the string and the new length may have arbitrary values.
-If the \fInewLength\fR argument is less than the current length
-of the object's string, with \fIobjPtr->length\fR is reduced without
-reallocating the string space; the original allocated size for the
-string is recorded in the object, so that the string length can be
-enlarged in a subsequent call to \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR without
-reallocating storage. In all cases \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR leaves
-a null character at \fIobjPtr->bytes[newLength]\fR.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR is identical in function to
-\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR except that if sufficient memory to satisfy the
-request cannot be allocated, it does not cause the Tcl interpreter to
-\fBpanic\fR. Thus, if \fInewLength\fR is greater than the space
-allocated for the object's string, and there is not enough memory
-available to satisfy the request, \fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR will take
-no action and return 0 to indicate failure. If there is enough memory
-to satisfy the request, \fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR behaves just like
-\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR and returns 1 to indicate success.
-.PP
-The \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR function returns a new string object whose
-value is the space-separated concatenation of the string
-representations of all of the objects in the \fIobjv\fR
-array. \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR eliminates leading and trailing white space
-as it copies the string representations of the \fIobjv\fR array to the
-result. If an element of the \fIobjv\fR array consists of nothing but
-white space, then that object is ignored entirely. This white-space
-removal was added to make the output of the \fBconcat\fR command
-cleaner-looking. \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR returns a pointer to a
-newly-created object whose ref count is zero.
-
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_DecrRefCount
-
-.SH KEYWORDS
-append, internal representation, object, object type, string object,
-string type, string representation, concat, concatenate, unicode
+'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: StringObj.3,v 1.22 2007/10/29 17:17:54 dgp Exp $ +'\" +.so man.macros +.TH Tcl_StringObj 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" +.BS +.SH NAME +Tcl_NewStringObj, Tcl_NewUnicodeObj, Tcl_SetStringObj, Tcl_SetUnicodeObj, Tcl_GetStringFromObj, Tcl_GetString, Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj, Tcl_GetUnicode, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetRange, Tcl_AppendToObj, Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObj, Tcl_AppendStringsToObjVA, Tcl_AppendObjToObj, Tcl_SetObjLength, Tcl_ConcatObj, Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength \- manipulate Tcl objects as strings +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR +.sp +Tcl_Obj * +\fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR(\fIbytes, length\fR) +.sp +Tcl_Obj * +\fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR(\fIunicode, numChars\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, bytes, length\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, unicode, numChars\fR) +.sp +char * +\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, lengthPtr\fR) +.sp +char * +\fBTcl_GetString\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR) +.sp +Tcl_UniChar * +\fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, lengthPtr\fR) +.sp +Tcl_UniChar * +\fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR) +.sp +Tcl_UniChar +\fBTcl_GetUniChar\fR(\fIobjPtr, index\fR) +.sp +int +\fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR(\fIobjPtr\fR) +.sp +Tcl_Obj * +\fBTcl_GetRange\fR(\fIobjPtr, first, last\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, bytes, length\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_AppendUnicodeToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, unicode, numChars\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, appendObjPtr\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR(\fIobjPtr, string, string, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR(\fIobjPtr, argList\fR) +.sp +void +\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR(\fIobjPtr, newLength\fR) +.sp +int +\fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR(\fIobjPtr, newLength\fR) +.sp +Tcl_Obj * +\fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR(\fIobjc, objv\fR) +.SH ARGUMENTS +.AS "const Tcl_UniChar" *appendObjPtr in/out +.AP "const char" *bytes in +Points to the first byte of an array of UTF-8-encoded bytes +used to set or append to a string object. +This byte array may contain embedded null characters +unless \fInumChars\fR is negative. (Applications needing null bytes +should represent them as the two-byte sequence \fI\e700\e600\fR, use +\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR to convert, or \fBTcl_NewByteArrayObj\fR if +the string is a collection of uninterpreted bytes.) +.AP int length in +The number of bytes to copy from \fIbytes\fR when +initializing, setting, or appending to a string object. +If negative, all bytes up to the first null are used. +.AP "const Tcl_UniChar" *unicode in +Points to the first byte of an array of Unicode characters +used to set or append to a string object. +This byte array may contain embedded null characters +unless \fInumChars\fR is negative. +.AP int numChars in +The number of Unicode characters to copy from \fIunicode\fR when +initializing, setting, or appending to a string object. +If negative, all characters up to the first null character are used. +.AP int index in +The index of the Unicode character to return. +.AP int first in +The index of the first Unicode character in the Unicode range to be +returned as a new object. +.AP int last in +The index of the last Unicode character in the Unicode range to be +returned as a new object. +.AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in/out +Points to an object to manipulate. +.AP Tcl_Obj *appendObjPtr in +The object to append to \fIobjPtr\fR in \fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR. +.AP int *lengthPtr out +If non-NULL, the location where \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR will store +the length of an object's string representation. +.AP "const char" *string in +Null-terminated string value to append to \fIobjPtr\fR. +.AP va_list argList in +An argument list which must have been initialised using +\fBva_start\fR, and cleared using \fBva_end\fR. +.AP int newLength in +New length for the string value of \fIobjPtr\fR, not including the +final null character. +.AP int objc in +The number of elements to concatenate. +.AP Tcl_Obj *objv[] in +The array of objects to concatenate. +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +The procedures described in this manual entry allow Tcl objects to +be manipulated as string values. They use the internal representation +of the object to store additional information to make the string +manipulations more efficient. In particular, they make a series of +append operations efficient by allocating extra storage space for the +string so that it does not have to be copied for each append. +Also, indexing and length computations are optimized because the +Unicode string representation is calculated and cached as needed. +When using the \fBTcl_Append*\fR family of functions where the +interpreter's result is the object being appended to, it is important +to call Tcl_ResetResult first to ensure you are not unintentionally +appending to existing data in the result object. +.PP +\fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR create a new object +or modify an existing object to hold a copy of the string given by +\fIbytes\fR and \fIlength\fR. \fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR and +\fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR create a new object or modify an existing +object to hold a copy of the Unicode string given by \fIunicode\fR and +\fInumChars\fR. \fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_NewUnicodeObj\fR +return a pointer to a newly created object with reference count zero. +All four procedures set the object to hold a copy of the specified +string. \fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetUnicodeObj\fR free any +old string representation as well as any old internal representation +of the object. +.PP +\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetString\fR return an object's +string representation. This is given by the returned byte pointer and +(for \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR) length, which is stored in +\fIlengthPtr\fR if it is non-NULL. If the object's UTF string +representation is invalid (its byte pointer is NULL), the string +representation is regenerated from the object's internal +representation. The storage referenced by the returned byte pointer +is owned by the object manager. It is passed back as a writable +pointer so that extension author creating their own \fBTcl_ObjType\fR +will be able to modify the string representation within the +\fBTcl_UpdateStringProc\fR of their \fBTcl_ObjType\fR. Except for that +limited purpose, the pointer returned by \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR +or \fBTcl_GetString\fR should be treated as read-only. It is +recommended that this pointer be assigned to a (const char *) variable. +Even in the limited situations where writing to this pointer is +acceptable, one should take care to respect the copy-on-write +semantics required by \fBTcl_Obj\fR's, with appropriate calls +to \fBTcl_IsShared\fR and \fBTcl_DuplicateObj\fR prior to any +in-place modification of the string representation. +The procedure \fBTcl_GetString\fR is used in the common case +where the caller does not need the length of the string +representation. +.PP +\fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR return an object's +value as a Unicode string. This is given by the returned pointer and +(for \fBTcl_GetUnicodeFromObj\fR) length, which is stored in +\fIlengthPtr\fR if it is non-NULL. The storage referenced by the returned +byte pointer is owned by the object manager and should not be modified by +the caller. The procedure \fBTcl_GetUnicode\fR is used in the common case +where the caller does not need the length of the unicode string +representation. +.PP +\fBTcl_GetUniChar\fR returns the \fIindex\fR'th character in the +object's Unicode representation. +.PP +\fBTcl_GetRange\fR returns a newly created object comprised of the +characters between \fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR (inclusive) in the +object's Unicode representation. If the object's Unicode +representation is invalid, the Unicode representation is regenerated +from the object's string representation. +.PP +\fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR returns the number of characters (as opposed +to bytes) in the string object. +.PP +\fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR appends the data given by \fIbytes\fR and +\fIlength\fR to the string representation of the object specified by +\fIobjPtr\fR. If the object has an invalid string representation, +then an attempt is made to convert \fIbytes\fR is to the Unicode +format. If the conversion is successful, then the converted form of +\fIbytes\fR is appended to the object's Unicode representation. +Otherwise, the object's Unicode representation is invalidated and +converted to the UTF format, and \fIbytes\fR is appended to the +object's new string representation. +.PP +\fBTcl_AppendUnicodeToObj\fR appends the Unicode string given by +\fIunicode\fR and \fInumChars\fR to the object specified by +\fIobjPtr\fR. If the object has an invalid Unicode representation, +then \fIunicode\fR is converted to the UTF format and appended to the +object's string representation. Appends are optimized to handle +repeated appends relatively efficiently (it overallocates the string +or Unicode space to avoid repeated reallocations and copies of +object's string value). +.PP +\fBTcl_AppendObjToObj\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR, but it +appends the string or Unicode value (whichever exists and is best +suited to be appended to \fIobjPtr\fR) of \fIappendObjPtr\fR to +\fIobjPtr\fR. +.PP +\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendToObj\fR +except that it can be passed more than one value to append and +each value must be a null-terminated string (i.e. none of the +values may contain internal null characters). Any number of +\fIstring\fR arguments may be provided, but the last argument +must be a NULL pointer to indicate the end of the list. +.PP +\fBTcl_AppendStringsToObjVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_AppendStringsToObj\fR +except that instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an +argument list. +.PP +The \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR procedure changes the length of the +string value of its \fIobjPtr\fR argument. If the \fInewLength\fR +argument is greater than the space allocated for the object's +string, then the string space is reallocated and the old value +is copied to the new space; the bytes between the old length of +the string and the new length may have arbitrary values. +If the \fInewLength\fR argument is less than the current length +of the object's string, with \fIobjPtr->length\fR is reduced without +reallocating the string space; the original allocated size for the +string is recorded in the object, so that the string length can be +enlarged in a subsequent call to \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR without +reallocating storage. In all cases \fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR leaves +a null character at \fIobjPtr->bytes[newLength]\fR. +.PP +\fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR is identical in function to +\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR except that if sufficient memory to satisfy the +request cannot be allocated, it does not cause the Tcl interpreter to +\fBpanic\fR. Thus, if \fInewLength\fR is greater than the space +allocated for the object's string, and there is not enough memory +available to satisfy the request, \fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR will take +no action and return 0 to indicate failure. If there is enough memory +to satisfy the request, \fBTcl_AttemptSetObjLength\fR behaves just like +\fBTcl_SetObjLength\fR and returns 1 to indicate success. +.PP +The \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR function returns a new string object whose +value is the space-separated concatenation of the string +representations of all of the objects in the \fIobjv\fR +array. \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR eliminates leading and trailing white space +as it copies the string representations of the \fIobjv\fR array to the +result. If an element of the \fIobjv\fR array consists of nothing but +white space, then that object is ignored entirely. This white-space +removal was added to make the output of the \fBconcat\fR command +cleaner-looking. \fBTcl_ConcatObj\fR returns a pointer to a +newly-created object whose ref count is zero. + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_DecrRefCount + +.SH KEYWORDS +append, internal representation, object, object type, string object, +string type, string representation, concat, concatenate, unicode |