string(n) Tcl Built-In Commands string(n)
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NAME
string - Manipulate strings
SYNOPSIS
string option arg ?arg ...?
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DESCRIPTION
Performs one of several string operations, depending on option. The legal options (which may be
abbreviated) are:
string bytelength string
Returns a decimal string giving the number of bytes used to represent string in memory.
Because UTF-8 uses one to three bytes to represent Unicode characters, the byte length will
not be the same as the character length in general. The cases where a script cares about the
byte length are rare. In almost all cases, you should use the string length operation
(including determining the length of a Tcl ByteArray object). Refer to the Tcl_NumUtfChars
manual entry for more details on the UTF-8 representation.
string compare ?-nocase? ?-length int? string1 string2
Perform a character-by-character comparison of strings string1 and string2. Returns -1, 0, or
1, depending on whether string1 is lexicographically less than, equal to, or greater than
string2. If -length is specified, then only the first length characters are used in the com-parison. comparison.
parison. If -length is negative, it is ignored. If -nocase is specified, then the strings
are compared in a case-insensitive manner.
string equal ?-nocase? ?-length int? string1 string2
Perform a character-by-character comparison of strings string1 and string2. Returns 1 if
string1 and string2 are identical, or 0 when not. If -length is specified, then only the
first length characters are used in the comparison. If -length is negative, it is ignored.
If -nocase is specified, then the strings are compared in a case-insensitive manner.
string first string1 string2 ?startIndex?
Search string2 for a sequence of characters that exactly match the characters in string1. If
found, return the index of the first character in the first such match within string2. If not
found, return -1. If startIndex is specified (in any of the forms accepted by the index
method), then the search is constrained to start with the character in string2 specified by
the index. For example,
string first a 0a23456789abcdef 5
will return 10, but
string first a 0123456789abcdef 11
will return -1.
string index string charIndex
Returns the charIndex'th character of the string argument. A charIndex of 0 corresponds to
the first character of the string. charIndex may be specified as follows:
integer The char specified at this integral index.
end The last char of the string.
end-integer
The last char of the string minus the specified integer offset (e.g. end-1 would
refer to the "c" in "abcd").
If charIndex is less than 0 or greater than or equal to the length of the string then an empty
string is returned.
string is class ?-strict? ?-failindex varname? string
Returns 1 if string is a valid member of the specified character class, otherwise returns 0.
If -strict is specified, then an empty string returns 0, otherwise and empty string will
return 1 on any class. If -failindex is specified, then if the function returns 0, the index
in the string where the class was no longer valid will be stored in the variable named var-name. varname.
name. The varname will not be set if the function returns 1. The following character classes
are recognized (the class name can be abbreviated):
alnum Any Unicode alphabet or digit character.
alpha Any Unicode alphabet character.
ascii Any character with a value less than \u0080 (those that are in the 7-bit ascii
range).
boolean Any of the forms allowed to Tcl_GetBoolean.
control Any Unicode control character.
digit Any Unicode digit character. Note that this includes characters outside of the
[0-9] range.
double Any of the valid forms for a double in Tcl, with optional surrounding whitespace.
In case of under/overflow in the value, 0 is returned and the varname will contain
-1.
false Any of the forms allowed to Tcl_GetBoolean where the value is false.
graph Any Unicode printing character, except space.
integer Any of the valid forms for a 32-bit integer in Tcl, with optional surrounding white-space. whitespace.
space. In case of under/overflow in the value, 0 is returned and the varname will
contain -1.
lower Any Unicode lower case alphabet character.
print Any Unicode printing character, including space.
punct Any Unicode punctuation character.
space Any Unicode space character.
true Any of the forms allowed to Tcl_GetBoolean where the value is true.
upper Any upper case alphabet character in the Unicode character set.
wordchar Any Unicode word character. That is any alphanumeric character, and any Unicode
connector punctuation characters (e.g. underscore).
xdigit Any hexadecimal digit character ([0-9A-Fa-f]).
In the case of boolean, true and false, if the function will return 0, then the varname will
always be set to 0, due to the varied nature of a valid boolean value.
string last string1 string2 ?lastIndex?
Search string2 for a sequence of characters that exactly match the characters in string1. If
found, return the index of the first character in the last such match within string2. If
there is no match, then return -1. If lastIndex is specified (in any of the forms accepted by
the index method), then only the characters in string2 at or before the specified lastIndex
will be considered by the search. For example,
string last a 0a23456789abcdef 15
will return 10, but
string last a 0a23456789abcdef 9
will return 1.
string length string
Returns a decimal string giving the number of characters in string. Note that this is not
necessarily the same as the number of bytes used to store the string. If the object is a
ByteArray object (such as those returned from reading a binary encoded channel), then this
will return the actual byte length of the object.
string map ?-nocase? charMap string
Replaces characters in string based on the key-value pairs in charMap. charMap is a list of
key value key value ... as in the form returned by array get. Each instance of a key in the
string will be replaced with its corresponding value. If -nocase is specified, then matching
is done without regard to case differences. Both key and value may be multiple characters.
Replacement is done in an ordered manner, so the key appearing first in the list will be
checked first, and so on. string is only iterated over once, so earlier key replacements will
have no affect for later key matches. For example,
string map {abc 1 ab 2 a 3 1 0} 1abcaababcabababc
will return the string 01321221.
string match ?-nocase? pattern string
See if pattern matches string; return 1 if it does, 0 if it doesn't. If -nocase is specified,
then the pattern attempts to match against the string in a case insensitive manner. For the
two strings to match, their contents must be identical except that the following special
sequences may appear in pattern:
* Matches any sequence of characters in string, including a null string.
? Matches any single character in string.
[chars] Matches any character in the set given by chars. If a sequence of the form x-y
appears in chars, then any character between x and y, inclusive, will match. When
used with -nocase, the end points of the range are converted to lower case first.
Whereas {[A-z]} matches '_' when matching case-sensitively ('_' falls between the
'Z' and 'a'), with -nocase this is considered like {[A-Za-z]} (and probably what was
meant in the first place).
\x Matches the single character x. This provides a way of avoiding the special inter-pretation interpretation
pretation of the characters *?[]\ in pattern.
string range string first last
Returns a range of consecutive characters from string, starting with the character whose index
is first and ending with the character whose index is last. An index of 0 refers to the first
character of the string. first and last may be specified as for the index method. If first
is less than zero then it is treated as if it were zero, and if last is greater than or equal
to the length of the string then it is treated as if it were end. If first is greater than
last then an empty string is returned.
string repeat string count
Returns string repeated count number of times.
string replace string first last ?newstring?
Removes a range of consecutive characters from string, starting with the character whose index
is first and ending with the character whose index is last. An index of 0 refers to the first
character of the string. First and last may be specified as for the index method. If new-string newstring
string is specified, then it is placed in the removed character range. If first is less than
zero then it is treated as if it were zero, and if last is greater than or equal to the length
of the string then it is treated as if it were end. If first is greater than last or the
length of the initial string, or last is less than 0, then the initial string is returned
untouched.
string tolower string ?first? ?last?
Returns a value equal to string except that all upper (or title) case letters have been con-verted converted
verted to lower case. If first is specified, it refers to the first char index in the string
to start modifying. If last is specified, it refers to the char index in the string to stop
at (inclusive). first and last may be specified as for the index method.
string totitle string ?first? ?last?
Returns a value equal to string except that the first character in string is converted to its
Unicode title case variant (or upper case if there is no title case variant) and the rest of
the string is converted to lower case. If first is specified, it refers to the first char
index in the string to start modifying. If last is specified, it refers to the char index in
the string to stop at (inclusive). first and last may be specified as for the index method.
string toupper string ?first? ?last?
Returns a value equal to string except that all lower (or title) case letters have been con-verted converted
verted to upper case. If first is specified, it refers to the first char index in the string
to start modifying. If last is specified, it refers to the char index in the string to stop
at (inclusive). first and last may be specified as for the index method.
string trim string ?chars?
Returns a value equal to string except that any leading or trailing characters from the set
given by chars are removed. If chars is not specified then white space is removed (spaces,
tabs, newlines, and carriage returns).
string trimleft string ?chars?
Returns a value equal to string except that any leading characters from the set given by chars
are removed. If chars is not specified then white space is removed (spaces, tabs, newlines,
and carriage returns).
string trimright string ?chars?
Returns a value equal to string except that any trailing characters from the set given by
chars are removed. If chars is not specified then white space is removed (spaces, tabs, new-lines, newlines,
lines, and carriage returns).
string wordend string charIndex
Returns the index of the character just after the last one in the word containing character
charIndex of string. charIndex may be specified as for the index method. A word is consid-ered considered
ered to be any contiguous range of alphanumeric (Unicode letters or decimal digits) or under-score underscore
score (Unicode connector punctuation) characters, or any single character other than these.
string wordstart string charIndex
Returns the index of the first character in the word containing character charIndex of string.
charIndex may be specified as for the index method. A word is considered to be any contiguous
range of alphanumeric (Unicode letters or decimal digits) or underscore (Unicode connector
punctuation) characters, or any single character other than these.
SEE ALSO
expr(n), list(n)
KEYWORDS
case conversion, compare, index, match, pattern, string, word, equal, ctype
Tcl 8.1 string(n)
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