NAME

array - Manipulate array variables

SYNOPSIS

array option arrayName ?arg arg ...?

DESCRIPTION

array anymore arrayName searchId

array donesearch arrayName searchId

array exists arrayName

array get arrayName ?pattern?

array names arrayName ?pattern?

array nextelement arrayName searchId

array set arrayName list

array size arrayName

array startsearch arrayName

KEYWORDS

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 element with an empty name, since the return value from array nextelement won't 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 specified, 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 glob-style matching rules of string match) are included. If arrayName isn't the name of an array variable, or if the array contains no elements, then an empty list is returned.

array names arrayName ?pattern?

Returns a list containing the names of all of the elements in the array that match pattern (using the glob-style matching rules of string match). If pattern is omitted then the command returns all of the element names in the array. If there are no (matching) elements in the array, or if arrayName isn't 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 elements of arrayName have already been returned in this search. The searchId argument identifies the search, and must have been the return value of an array startsearch 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.

array size arrayName

Returns a decimal string giving the number of elements in the array. If arrayName isn't 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 identifier that must be used in array nextelement and array donesearch commands; it allows multiple searches to be underway simultaneously for the same array.

KEYWORDS

Copyright © 1993-1994 The Regents of the University of California.
Copyright © 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Copyright © 1995, 1996 Roger E. Critchlow Jr.