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tcl::prefix − facilities for prefix matching
::tcl::prefix
all table string
::tcl::prefix longest table string
::tcl::prefix match ?option ...? table string
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This document
describes commands looking up a prefix in a list of strings.
The following commands are supported:
::tcl::prefix all table string
Returns a list of all elements in table that begin with the prefix string.
::tcl::prefix longest table string
Returns the longest common prefix of all elements in table that begin with the prefix string.
::tcl::prefix match ?options? table string
If string equals one
element in table or is a prefix to exactly one
element, the matched element is returned. If not, the result
depends on the −error option. (It is
recommended that the table be sorted before use with
this subcommand, so that the list of matches presented in
the error message also becomes sorted, though this is not
strictly necessary for the operation of this subcommand
itself.)
−exact
Accept only exact matches.
−message string
Use string in the error message at a mismatch. Default is “option”.
−error options
The options are used when no match is found. If options is empty, no error is generated and an empty string is returned. Otherwise the options are used as return options when generating the error message. The default corresponds to setting “−level 0”. Example: If “−error {−errorcode MyError −level 1}” is used, an error would be generated as:
return
−errorcode MyError −level 1 −code error \
"ambiguous option ..."
Basic use:
namespace
import ::tcl::prefix
prefix match {apa bepa cepa} apa
→ apa
prefix match {apa bepa cepa} a
→ apa
prefix match −exact {apa bepa cepa} a
→ bad option "a": must be apa, bepa, or
cepa
prefix match −message "switch" {apa ada
bepa cepa} a
→ ambiguous switch "a": must be apa, ada,
bepa, or cepa
prefix longest {fblocked fconfigure fcopy file fileevent
flush} fc
→ fco
prefix all {fblocked fconfigure fcopy file fileevent
flush} fc
→ fconfigure fcopy
Simplifying option matching:
array set opts
{−apa 1 −bepa "" −cepa 0}
foreach {arg val} $args {
set opts([prefix match {−apa −bepa
−cepa} $arg]) $val
}
Creating a switch that supports prefixes:
switch
[prefix match {apa bepa cepa} $arg] {
apa { }
bepa { }
cepa { }
}
lsearch(3), namespace.conf(5), string(3), Tcl_GetIndexFromObj(3)
prefix, table lookup
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