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- .so man.macros
- .HS catch tcl
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- .SH NAME
- catch \- Evaluate script and trap exceptional returns
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBcatch\fI script \fR?\fIvarName\fR?
- .BE
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- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- The \fBcatch\fR command may be used to prevent errors from aborting
- command interpretation. \fBCatch\fR calls the Tcl interpreter recursively
- to execute \fIscript\fR, and always returns a TCL_OK code, regardless of
- any errors that might occur while executing \fIscript\fR. The return
- value from \fBcatch\fR is a decimal string giving the
- code returned by the Tcl interpreter after executing \fIscript\fR.
- This will be \fB0\fR (TCL_OK) if there were no errors in \fIscript\fR;
- otherwise
- it will have a non-zero value corresponding to one of the exceptional
- return codes (see tcl.h for the definitions of code values). If the
- \fIvarName\fR argument is given, then it gives the name of a variable;
- \fBcatch\fR will set the variable to the string returned
- from \fIscript\fR (either a result or an error message).
- .PP
- Note that \fBcatch\fR catches all exceptions, including those
- generated by \fBbreak\fR and \fBcontinue\fR as well as errors.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- catch, error
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