Chapter 5
Using Strings and Lists
This chapter describes how to use Tcl strings and lists for common data-searching applications. A common programming task is extracting one piece of information from a large mass of data. This section discusses several methods for doing that and introduces a few more Tcl concepts and commands along the way.
For the application, we will find the Noumena Corporation home page in a list of uniform resource locators (URLs) for some Tcl information and archive sites. The following is the starting data, extracted and modified from a browser’s bookmark file.
% set urls {
wiki.tcl.tk "Tcler’s Wiki"
core.tcl.tk "Tcl/Tk Fossil Core"
sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/ "Sourceforge Tcl"
sourceforge.net/projects/tktoolkit/ "Sourceforge ...
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