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(TCL) commands by type

String and character manipulation commands

These commands provide functionality to classify characters, convert characters between character and numeric values, convert an index into a string, determine the length of a string, extract a range of characters from a string, replicate a string a number of times, and transliterate a string (similar to the UNIX tr(C) program).

Available commands are:


cequal(TCL)
compares two strings for equality

cexpand(TCL)
expands backslash characters in a string to actual characters

cindex(TCL)
returns the character indexed by the given expression from string

clength(TCL)
returns the length of a string in characters

crange(TCL)
returns a range of characters from a string

csubstr(TCL)
returns a substring of characters from a string

ctoken(TCL)
parses a token out of a character string

ctype(TCL)
tests whether characters in a string are of a given class

replicate(TCL)
replicates a string n times

translit(TCL)
changes characters in inrange to outrange

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