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'\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
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'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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'\" Copyright (c) 2001 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>. All rights reserved.
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'\"
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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
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'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
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.TH lreplace n 7.4 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
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.so man.macros
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.BS
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'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
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.SH NAME
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lreplace \- Replace elements in a list with new elements
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBlreplace \fIlist first last \fR?\fIelement element ...\fR?
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.BE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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\fBlreplace\fR returns a new list formed by replacing zero or more elements of
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\fIlist\fR with the \fIelement\fR arguments.
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\fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR are index values specifying the first and
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last elements of the range to replace.
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The index values \fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR are interpreted
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the same as index values for the command \fBstring index\fR,
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supporting simple index arithmetic and indices relative to the
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end of the list.
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0 refers to the first element of the
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list, and \fBend\fR refers to the last element of the list.
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.PP
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If either \fIfirst\fR or \fIlast\fR is less than zero, it is considered
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to refer to before the first element of the list. This allows \fBlreplace\fR
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to prepend elements to \fIlist\fR.
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.VS TIP505
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If either \fIfirst\fR or \fIlast\fR indicates a position greater than the
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index of the last element of the list, it is treated as if it is an
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index one greater than the last element. This allows \fBlreplace\fR to
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append elements to \fIlist\fR.
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.VE TIP505
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.PP
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If \fIlast\fR is less than \fIfirst\fR, then any specified elements
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will be inserted into the list before the element specified by \fIfirst\fR
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with no elements being deleted.
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.PP
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The \fIelement\fR arguments specify zero or more new elements to
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be added to the list in place of those that were deleted.
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Each \fIelement\fR argument will become a separate element of
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the list. If no \fIelement\fR arguments are specified, then the elements
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between \fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR are simply deleted.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.PP
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Replacing an element of a list with another:
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.PP
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.CS
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% \fBlreplace\fR {a b c d e} 1 1 foo
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a foo c d e
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.CE
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.PP
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Replacing two elements of a list with three:
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.PP
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.CS
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% \fBlreplace\fR {a b c d e} 1 2 three more elements
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a three more elements d e
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.CE
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.PP
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Deleting the last element from a list in a variable:
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.PP
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.CS
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% set var {a b c d e}
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a b c d e
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% set var [\fBlreplace\fR $var end end]
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a b c d
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.CE
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.PP
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A procedure to delete a given element from a list:
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.PP
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.CS
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proc lremove {listVariable value} {
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upvar 1 $listVariable var
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set idx [lsearch -exact $var $value]
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set var [\fBlreplace\fR $var $idx $idx]
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}
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.CE
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.PP
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.VS TIP505
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Appending elements to the list; note that \fBend+2\fR will initially
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be treated as if it is \fB6\fR here, but both that and \fB12345\fR are greater
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than the index of the final item so they behave identically:
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.PP
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.CS
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% set var {a b c d e}
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a b c d e
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% set var [\fBlreplace\fR $var 12345 end+2 f g h i]
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a b c d e f g h i
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.CE
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.VE TIP505
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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list(n), lappend(n), lindex(n), linsert(n), llength(n), lsearch(n),
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lset(n), lrange(n), lsort(n),
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string(n)
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.SH KEYWORDS
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element, list, replace
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.\" Local variables:
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.\" mode: nroff
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.\" fill-column: 78
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.\" End:
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