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- case string ?in? patList body ?patList body ...?
- case string ?in? {patList body ?patList body ...?}
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Note: the case command is obsolete and is supported only for
- backward compatibility. At some point in the future it may
- be removed entirely. You should use the switch command
- instead.
-
- The case command matches string against each of the patList
- arguments in order. Each patList argument is a list of one
- or more patterns. If any of these patterns matches string
- then case evaluates the following body argument by passing
- it recursively to the Tcl interpreter and returns the result
- of that evaluation. Each patList argument consists of a
- single pattern or list of patterns. Each pattern may con-
- tain any of the wild-cards described under string match. If
- a patList argument is default, the corresponding body will
- be evaluated if no patList matches string. If no patList
- argument matches string and no default is given, then the
- case command returns an empty string.
-
- Two syntaxes are provided for the patList and body argu-
- ments. The first uses a separate argument for each of the
- patterns and commands; this form is convenient if substitu-
- tions are desired on some of the patterns or commands. The
- second form places all of the patterns and commands together
- into a single argument; the argument must have proper list
- structure, with the elements of the list being the patterns
- and commands. The second form makes it easy to construct
- multi-line case commands, since the braces around the whole
- list make it unnecessary to include a backslash at the end
- of each line. Since the patList arguments are in braces in
- the second form, no command or variable substitutions are
- performed on them; this makes the behavior of the second
- form different than the first form in some cases.
-
-
- KEYWORDS
- case, match, regular expression
-