ARRAY(0x1f0a24) - phpMan

Command: man perldoc info search(apropos)  


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



_________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
       array - Manipulate array variables

SYNOPSIS
       array option arrayName ?arg arg ...?
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION
       This  command  performs  one  of  several  operations  on the variable given by arrayName.
       Unless otherwise specified for individual commands below, arrayName must be the name of an
       existing array variable.  The option argument determines what action is carried out by the
       command.  The legal options (which may be abbreviated) are:

       array anymore arrayName searchId
              Returns 1 if there are any more elements left to be processed in an array search, 0
              if  all  elements  have  already been returned.  SearchId indicates which search on
              arrayName to check, and must have been the return value from a previous  invocation
              of  array  startsearch.  This option is particularly useful if an array has an ele-
              ment with an empty name, since the return value from  array  nextelement  will  not
              indicate whether the search has been completed.

       array donesearch arrayName searchId
              This  command terminates an array search and destroys all the state associated with
              that search.  SearchId indicates which search on arrayName  to  destroy,  and  must
              have  been  the  return  value  from  a  previous  invocation of array startsearch.
              Returns an empty string.

       array exists arrayName
              Returns 1 if arrayName is an array variable, 0 if there is no variable by that name
              or if it is a scalar variable.

       array get arrayName ?pattern?
              Returns a list containing pairs of elements.  The first element in each pair is the
              name of an element in arrayName and the second element of each pair is the value of
              the  array element.  The order of the pairs is undefined.  If pattern is not speci-
              fied, then all of the elements of the array are included in the result.  If pattern
              is  specified, then only those elements whose names match pattern (using the match-
              ing rules of string match) are included.  If arrayName is not the name of an  array
              variable, or if the array contains no elements, then an empty list is returned.  If
              traces on the array modify the list of elements, the elements  returned  are  those
              that exist both before and after the call to array get.

       array names arrayName ?mode? ?pattern?
              Returns  a list containing the names of all of the elements in the array that match
              pattern.  Mode may be one of -exact, -glob, or -regexp.  If specified, mode  desig-
              nates  which  matching  rules to use to match pattern against the names of the ele-
              ments in the array.  If not specified, mode defaults to -glob.  See the  documenta-
              tion for string match for information on glob style matching, and the documentation
              for regexp for information on regexp matching.  If pattern is omitted then the com-
              mand  returns  all  of  the element names in the array.  If there are no (matching)
              elements in the array, or if arrayName is not the name of an array  variable,  then
              an empty string is returned.

       array nextelement arrayName searchId
              Returns  the  name of the next element in arrayName, or an empty string if all ele-
              ments of arrayName have already been returned in this search.  The  searchId  argu-
              ment  identifies the search, and must have been the return value of an array start-
              search command.  Warning:  if elements are added to or deleted from the array, then
              all  searches  are  automatically  terminated  just as if array donesearch had been
              invoked; this will cause array nextelement operations to fail for those searches.

       array set arrayName list
              Sets the values of one or more elements in arrayName.  list must have a  form  like
              that  returned  by  array get, consisting of an even number of elements.  Each odd-
              numbered element in list is treated as an element name within  arrayName,  and  the
              following  element  in  list is used as a new value for that array element.  If the
              variable arrayName does not already exist and list is empty, arrayName  is  created
              with an empty array value.

       array size arrayName
              Returns  a decimal string giving the number of elements in the array.  If arrayName
              is not the name of an array then 0 is returned.

       array startsearch arrayName
              This command initializes an element-by-element search through the  array  given  by
              arrayName,  such  that invocations of the array nextelement command will return the
              names of the individual elements in the array.  When the search has been completed,
              the array donesearch command should be invoked.  The return value is a search iden-
              tifier that must be used in array nextelement and  array  donesearch  commands;  it
              allows  multiple  searches to be underway simultaneously for the same array.  It is
              currently more efficient and easier to use either the array  get  or  array  names,
              together with foreach, to iterate over all but very large arrays.  See the examples
              below for how to do this.

       array statistics arrayName
              Returns statistics about the distribution of data within the hashtable that  repre-
              sents the array.  This information includes the number of entries in the table, the
              number of buckets, and the utilization of the buckets.

       array unset arrayName ?pattern?
              Unsets all of the elements in the array that  match  pattern  (using  the  matching
              rules of string match).  If arrayName is not the name of an array variable or there
              are no matching elements in the array, no error will  be  raised.   If  pattern  is
              omitted  and  arrayName  is  an  array variable, then the command unsets the entire
              array.  The command always returns an empty string.

EXAMPLES
              array set colorcount {
                 red   1
                 green 5
                 blue  4
                 white 9
              }

              foreach {color count} [array get colorcount] {
                 puts "Color: $color Count: $count"
              }
                -> Color: blue Count: 4
                  Color: white Count: 9
                  Color: green Count: 5
                  Color: red Count: 1

              foreach color [array names colorcount] {
                 puts "Color: $color Count: $colorcount($color)"
              }
                -> Color: blue Count: 4
                  Color: white Count: 9
                  Color: green Count: 5
                  Color: red Count: 1

              foreach color [lsort [array names colorcount]] {
                 puts "Color: $color Count: $colorcount($color)"
              }
                -> Color: blue Count: 4
                  Color: green Count: 5
                  Color: red Count: 1
                  Color: white Count: 9

              array statistics colorcount
                -> 4 entries in table, 4 buckets
                  number of buckets with 0 entries: 1
                  number of buckets with 1 entries: 2
                  number of buckets with 2 entries: 1
                  number of buckets with 3 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 4 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 5 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 6 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 7 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 8 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 9 entries: 0
                  number of buckets with 10 or more entries: 0
                  average search distance for entry: 1.2

SEE ALSO
       list(n), string(n), variable(n), trace(n), foreach(n)

KEYWORDS
       array, element names, search



Tcl                                            8.3                                       array(n)

Generated by $Id: phpMan.php,v 4.55 2007/09/05 04:42:51 chedong Exp $ Author: Che Dong
On Apache
Under GNU General Public License
2024-04-18 18:05 @18.116.118.244 CrawledBy claudebot
Valid XHTML 1.0!Valid CSS!