Chapter 5. Expanding String Functionality Using Lists
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Creating a list
- Joining two lists
- Joining list elements
- Appending list elements
- Assigning list elements to variables
- Retrieving an element from a list
- Inserting elements into a list
- Determining the number of elements
- Getting a list element
- Repeating elements
- Replacing elements
- Reversing elements
- Searching a list
- Editing a list
- Sorting a list
- Splitting a string into a list
Introduction
Now that we have a firm grasp on the string type, let's look at the Tcl command list
. As you might have discerned from the command name, this command is used to create and manage lists of information. While the various string handling commands allow for the creation of a string ...
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