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diff --git a/doc/array.n b/doc/array.n new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0de8aa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/array.n @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1993-1994 The Regents of the University of California. +'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +'\" SCCS: @(#) array.n 1.9 97/10/29 14:10:13 +'\" +.so man.macros +.TH array n 7.4 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" +.BS +'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! +.SH NAME +array \- Manipulate array variables +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBarray \fIoption arrayName\fR ?\fIarg arg ...\fR? +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +This command performs one of several operations on the +variable given by \fIarrayName\fR. +Unless otherwise specified for individual commands below, +\fIarrayName\fR must be the name of an existing array variable. +The \fIoption\fR argument determines what action is carried +out by the command. +The legal \fIoptions\fR (which may be abbreviated) are: +.TP +\fBarray anymore \fIarrayName searchId\fR +Returns 1 if there are any more elements left to be processed +in an array search, 0 if all elements have already been +returned. +\fISearchId\fR indicates which search on \fIarrayName\fR to +check, and must have been the return value from a previous +invocation of \fBarray startsearch\fR. +This option is particularly useful if an array has an element +with an empty name, since the return value from +\fBarray nextelement\fR won't indicate whether the search +has been completed. +.TP +\fBarray donesearch \fIarrayName searchId\fR +This command terminates an array search and destroys all the +state associated with that search. \fISearchId\fR indicates +which search on \fIarrayName\fR to destroy, and must have +been the return value from a previous invocation of +\fBarray startsearch\fR. Returns an empty string. +.TP +\fBarray exists \fIarrayName\fR +Returns 1 if \fIarrayName\fR is an array variable, 0 if there +is no variable by that name or if it is a scalar variable. +.TP +\fBarray get \fIarrayName\fR ?\fIpattern\fR? +Returns a list containing pairs of elements. The first +element in each pair is the name of an element in \fIarrayName\fR +and the second element of each pair is the value of the +array element. The order of the pairs is undefined. +If \fIpattern\fR is not specified, then all of the elements of the +array are included in the result. +If \fIpattern\fR is specified, then only those elements whose names +match \fIpattern\fR (using the glob-style matching rules of +\fBstring match\fR) are included. +If \fIarrayName\fR isn't the name of an array variable, or if +the array contains no elements, then an empty list is returned. +.TP +\fBarray names \fIarrayName\fR ?\fIpattern\fR? +Returns a list containing the names of all of the elements in +the array that match \fIpattern\fR (using the glob-style matching +rules of \fBstring match\fR). +If \fIpattern\fR is omitted then the command returns all of +the element names in the array. +If there are no (matching) elements in the array, or if \fIarrayName\fR +isn't the name of an array variable, then an empty string is +returned. +.TP +\fBarray nextelement \fIarrayName searchId\fR +Returns the name of the next element in \fIarrayName\fR, or +an empty string if all elements of \fIarrayName\fR have +already been returned in this search. The \fIsearchId\fR +argument identifies the search, and must have +been the return value of an \fBarray startsearch\fR command. +Warning: if elements are added to or deleted from the array, +then all searches are automatically terminated just as if +\fBarray donesearch\fR had been invoked; this will cause +\fBarray nextelement\fR operations to fail for those searches. +.TP +\fBarray set \fIarrayName list\fR +Sets the values of one or more elements in \fIarrayName\fR. +\fIlist\fR must have a form like that returned by \fBarray get\fR, +consisting of an even number of elements. +Each odd-numbered element in \fIlist\fR is treated as an element +name within \fIarrayName\fR, and the following element in \fIlist\fR +is used as a new value for that array element. +If the variable \fIarrayName\fR does not already exist +and \fIlist\fR is empty, +\fIarrayName\fR is created with an empty array value. +.TP +\fBarray size \fIarrayName\fR +Returns a decimal string giving the number of elements in the +array. +If \fIarrayName\fR isn't the name of an array then 0 is returned. +.TP +\fBarray startsearch \fIarrayName\fR +This command initializes an element-by-element search through the +array given by \fIarrayName\fR, such that invocations of the +\fBarray nextelement\fR command will return the names of the +individual elements in the array. +When the search has been completed, the \fBarray donesearch\fR +command should be invoked. +The return value is a +search identifier that must be used in \fBarray nextelement\fR +and \fBarray donesearch\fR commands; it allows multiple +searches to be underway simultaneously for the same array. + +.SH KEYWORDS +array, element names, search |