Pattern Matching
Many Tcl commands support pattern matching in any of three
styles:
- exact pattern matching
- globbing
- regular expressions
Commands that support pattern matching share a common set of options
to specify the style:
Commands That Support Pattern Matching
lsearch
- Supports all three forms.
lmatch
- Supports all three forms.
switch
- Supports all three forms.
string match
- Supports globbing.
regexp
- Supports regular expressions.
regsub
- Supports regular expressions.
scanmatch
- Supports regular expressions.
Exact Pattern Matching
Globbing
Regular Expressions
Keith Waclena
The University of Chicago Library
This page last updated: Tue Aug 2 12:22:46 CDT 1994
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