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eval(n)                                     Tcl Built-In Commands                                    eval(n)



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NAME
       eval - Evaluate a Tcl script

SYNOPSIS
       eval arg ?arg ...?
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DESCRIPTION
       Eval  takes  one  or more arguments, which together comprise a Tcl script containing one or more com-mands. commands.
       mands.  Eval concatenates all its arguments in the same fashion as the  concat  command,  passes  the
       concatenated string to the Tcl interpreter recursively, and returns the result of that evaluation (or
       any error generated by it).  Note that the list command quotes sequences of words in such a way  that
       they are not further expanded by the eval command.


KEYWORDS
       concatenate, evaluate, script


SEE ALSO
       catch(n), concat(n), error(n), list(n), subst(n), tclvars(n)



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