Chapter 11. Regular Expressions
This chapter describes regular expression pattern matching and string processing based on regular expression substitutions. These features provide the most powerful string processing facilities in Tcl. Tcl commands described are: regexp and regsub.
Regular expressions are a formal way to describe string patterns. They provide a powerful and compact way to specify patterns in your data. Even better, there is a very efficient implementation of the regular expression mechanism due to Henry Spencer. If your script does much string processing, it is worth the effort to learn about the regexp command. Your Tcl scripts will be compact and efficient. This chapter uses many examples to show you the features of regular expressions. ...
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