Tcl_BooleanObj(3TCL) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_BooleanObj(3TCL)
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NAME
Tcl_NewBooleanObj, Tcl_SetBooleanObj, Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj - manipulate Tcl objects as boolean values
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
Tcl_Obj *
Tcl_NewBooleanObj(boolValue)
Tcl_SetBooleanObj(objPtr, boolValue)
int
Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj(interp, objPtr, boolPtr)
ARGUMENTS
int boolValue (in) Integer value used to initialize or set a boolean object. If the integer is nonzero, the boolean object
is set to 1; otherwise the boolean object is set to 0.
Tcl_Obj *objPtr (in/out) For Tcl_SetBooleanObj, this points to the object to be converted to boolean type. For Tcl_GetBooleanFro-
mObj, this refers to the object from which to get a boolean value; if objPtr does not already point to a
boolean object, an attempt will be made to convert it to one.
Tcl_Interp *interp (in/out) If an error occurs during conversion, an error message is left in the interpreter's result object unless
interp is NULL.
int *boolPtr (out) Points to place where Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj stores the boolean value (0 or 1) obtained from objPtr.
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DESCRIPTION
These procedures are used to create, modify, and read boolean Tcl objects from C code. Tcl_NewBooleanObj and Tcl_SetBooleanObj will create
a new object of boolean type or modify an existing object to have boolean type. Both of these procedures set the object to have the bool-
ean value (0 or 1) specified by boolValue; if boolValue is nonzero, the object is set to 1, otherwise to 0. Tcl_NewBooleanObj returns a
pointer to a newly created object with reference count zero. Both procedures set the object's type to be boolean and assign the boolean
value to the object's internal representation longValue member. Tcl_SetBooleanObj invalidates any old string representation and, if the
object is not already a boolean object, frees any old internal representation.
Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj attempts to return a boolean value from the Tcl object objPtr. If the object is not already a boolean object, it
will attempt to convert it to one. If an error occurs during conversion, it returns TCL_ERROR and leaves an error message in the inter-
preter's result object unless interp is NULL. Otherwise, Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj returns TCL_OK and stores the boolean value in the address
given by boolPtr. If the object is not already a boolean object, the conversion will free any old internal representation. Objects having
a string representation equal to any of 0, false, no, or off have a boolean value 0; if the string representation is any of 1, true, yes,
or on the boolean value is 1. Any of these string values may be abbreviated, and upper-case spellings are also acceptable.
SEE ALSO
Tcl_NewObj, Tcl_DecrRefCount, Tcl_IncrRefCount, Tcl_GetObjResult
KEYWORDS
boolean, boolean object, boolean type, internal representation, object, object type, string representation
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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|Availability | SUNWTcl |
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|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
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NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Tcl 8.0 Tcl_BooleanObj(3TCL)