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- bsearch fileId key ?retvar? ?compare_proc?
- Search an opened file fileId containing lines of text
- sorted into ascending order for a match. Key contains
- the string to match. If retvar is specified, then the
- line from the file is returned in retvar, and the com-
- mand returns 1 if key was found, and 0 if it wasn't.
- If retvar is not specified or is a null name, then the
- command returns the line that was found, or an empty
- string if key wasn't found.
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- By default, the key is matched against the first
- white-space separated field in each line. The field is
- treated as an ASCII string. If compare_proc is speci-
- fied, then it defines the name of a Tcl procedure to
- evaluate against each line read from the sorted file
- during the execution of the bsearch command.
- Compare_proc takes two arguments, the key and a line
- extracted from the file. The compare routine should
- return a number less than zero if the key is less than
- the line, zero if the key matches the line, or greater
- than zero if the key is greater than the line. The
- file must be sorted in ascending order according to the
- same criteria compare_proc uses to compare the key with
- the line, or errouenous results will occur.
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