Determining if a key exists
Now that we have a named dictionary with key/value pairs, it becomes necessary to determine if the given key exists. To accomplish this, Tcl provides the dict exists
command. The syntax is as follows:
dict exists DictionaryValue key… key…
How to do it…
In the following example, we will create a dictionary containing a set of key/value pairs and then determine whether or not a specific key exists. Return values from the commands are provided for clarity. Enter the following command:
% set names [dict create 1 John 2 Mary 3 Paul]
1 John 2 Mary 3 Paul
% dict exists $names 3
1
How it works…
The dict exists
command returns a Boolean value to indicate if the specified key exists in the dictionary referenced in name. A return ...
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