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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers passing strings as arguments Post 302133148 by iago on Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 06:57:55 AM
Old 08-22-2007
passing strings as arguments

Is it possible to pass a string as an argument from the command line?

I know I can pass a word in but can I put a line of text in with spaces and fullstops or do I just put it in brackets or quotes so the compiler can differinate between the first argument and the second.
 

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Tcl(n)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    Tcl(n)

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Tcl - Summary of Tcl language syntax. _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The following rules define the syntax and semantics of the Tcl language: [1] A Tcl script is a string containing one or more commands. Semi-colons and newlines are command separators unless quoted as described below. Close brackets are command terminators during command substitution (see below) unless quoted. [2] A command is evaluated in two steps. First, the Tcl interpreter breaks the command into words and performs substitutions as described below. These substitutions are performed in the same way for all commands. The first word is used to locate a command procedure to carry out the command, then all of the words of the command are passed to the command procedure. The command procedure is free to interpret each of its words in any way it likes, such as an integer, variable name, list, or Tcl script. Different com- mands interpret their words differently. [3] Words of a command are separated by white space (except for newlines, which are command separators). [4] If the first character of a word is double-quote (``"'') then the word is terminated by the next double-quote character. If semi- colons, close brackets, or white space characters (including newlines) appear between the quotes then they are treated as ordinary characters and included in the word. Command substitution, variable substitution, and backslash substitution are performed on the characters between the quotes as described below. The double-quotes are not retained as part of the word. [5] If the first character of a word is an open brace (``{'') then the word is terminated by the matching close brace (``}''). Braces nest within the word: for each additional open brace there must be an additional close brace (however, if an open brace or close brace within the word is quoted with a backslash then it is not counted in locating the matching close brace). No substitutions are performed on the characters between the braces except for backslash-newline substitutions described below, nor do semi-colons, new- lines, close brackets, or white space receive any special interpretation. The word will consist of exactly the characters between the outer braces, not including the braces themselves. [6] If a word contains an open bracket (``['') then Tcl performs command substitution. To do this it invokes the Tcl interpreter recur- sively to process the characters following the open bracket as a Tcl script. The script may contain any number of commands and must be terminated by a close bracket (``]''). The result of the script (i.e. the result of its last command) is substituted into the word in place of the brackets and all of the characters between them. There may be any number of command substitutions in a single word. Command substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces. [7] If a word contains a dollar-sign (``$'') then Tcl performs variable substitution: the dollar-sign and the following characters are replaced in the word by the value of a variable. Variable substitution may take any of the following forms: $name Name is the name of a scalar variable; the name is terminated by any character that isn't a letter, digit, or under- score. $name(index) Name gives the name of an array variable and index gives the name of an element within that array. Name must contain only letters, digits, and underscores. Command substitutions, variable substitutions, and backslash substitutions are performed on the characters of index. ${name} Name is the name of a scalar variable. It may contain any characters whatsoever except for close braces. There may be any number of variable substitutions in a single word. Variable substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces. [8] If a backslash (``'') appears within a word then backslash substitution occurs. In all cases but those described below the back- slash is dropped and the following character is treated as an ordinary character and included in the word. This allows characters such as double quotes, close brackets, and dollar signs to be included in words without triggering special processing. The follow- ing table lists the backslash sequences that are handled specially, along with the value that replaces each sequence. a Audible alert (bell) (0x7).  Backspace (0x8). f Form feed (0xc). Newline (0xa). Carriage-return (0xd). Tab (0x9). v Vertical tab (0xb). <newline>whiteSpace A single space character replaces the backslash, newline, and all spaces and tabs after the newline. This backslash sequence is unique in that it is replaced in a separate pre-pass before the command is actually parsed. This means that it will be replaced even when it occurs between braces, and the resulting space will be treated as a word separator if it isn't in braces or quotes. \ Backslash (``''). ooo | The digits ooo (one, two, or three of them) give an eight-bit octal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted. | The upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0. | xhh | The hexadecimal digits hh give an eight-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted. Any number of | hexadecimal digits may be present; however, all but the last two are ignored (the result is always a one-byte quantity). The | upper bits of the Unicode character will be 0. | uhhhh | The hexadecimal digits hhhh (one, two, three, or four of them) give a sixteen-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character | that will be inserted. Backslash substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces, except for backslash-newline as described above. [9] If a hash character (``#'') appears at a point where Tcl is expecting the first character of the first word of a command, then the hash character and the characters that follow it, up through the next newline, are treated as a comment and ignored. The comment character only has significance when it appears at the beginning of a command. [10] Each character is processed exactly once by the Tcl interpreter as part of creating the words of a command. For example, if vari- able substitution occurs then no further substitutions are performed on the value of the variable; the value is inserted into the word verbatim. If command substitution occurs then the nested command is processed entirely by the recursive call to the Tcl inter- preter; no substitutions are performed before making the recursive call and no additional substitutions are performed on the result of the nested script. [11] Substitutions do not affect the word boundaries of a command. For example, during variable substitution the entire value of the variable becomes part of a single word, even if the variable's value contains spaces. Tcl 8.1 Tcl(n)
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