03-07-2013
Perhaps now you understand my reluctance to use Windows CMD loops. echo rename works when rename doesn't because of inane inconsistencies in Windows' CMD parser.
Also, the variable set in the batch file is persistent, so if you mess it up one execution, you might still think it's working the next even when it isn't (because you messed up the syntax of set and it silently failed)
Oh, and sometimes it does the trick of setting the variable outside the loop but not inside it. Which makes interesting side-effects given the above.
The main problem is the difference between the special %a/%%a variable for generates, and the more normal environment variables required to do string operations. They don't cooperate, not being set properly inside the loop somehow. And all the special operations for for's special variables have been replaced with ones related to expanding file paths.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-07-2013 at 06:06 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
foreach
foreach(3tcl) Tcl Built-In Commands foreach(3tcl)
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NAME
foreach - Iterate over all elements in one or more lists
SYNOPSIS
foreach varname list body
foreach varlist1 list1 ?varlist2 list2 ...? body
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DESCRIPTION
The foreach command implements a loop where the loop variable(s) take on values from one or more lists. In the simplest case there is one
loop variable, varname, and one list, list, that is a list of values to assign to varname. The body argument is a Tcl script. For each
element of list (in order from first to last), foreach assigns the contents of the element to varname as if the lindex command had been
used to extract the element, then calls the Tcl interpreter to execute body.
In the general case there can be more than one value list (e.g., list1 and list2), and each value list can be associated with a list of
loop variables (e.g., varlist1 and varlist2). During each iteration of the loop the variables of each varlist are assigned consecutive
values from the corresponding list. Values in each list are used in order from first to last, and each value is used exactly once. The
total number of loop iterations is large enough to use up all the values from all the value lists. If a value list does not contain enough
elements for each of its loop variables in each iteration, empty values are used for the missing elements.
The break and continue statements may be invoked inside body, with the same effect as in the for command. Foreach returns an empty string.
EXAMPLES
This loop prints every value in a list together with the square and cube of the value:
set values {1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8} ;# Odd numbers first, for fun!
puts "Value Square Cube" ;# Neat-looking header
foreach x $values { ;# Now loop and print...
puts " $x [expr {$x**2}] [expr {$x**3}]"
}
The following loop uses i and j as loop variables to iterate over pairs of elements of a single list.
set x {}
foreach {i j} {a b c d e f} {
lappend x $j $i
}
# The value of x is "b a d c f e"
# There are 3 iterations of the loop.
The next loop uses i and j to iterate over two lists in parallel.
set x {}
foreach i {a b c} j {d e f g} {
lappend x $i $j
}
# The value of x is "a d b e c f {} g"
# There are 4 iterations of the loop.
The two forms are combined in the following example.
set x {}
foreach i {a b c} {j k} {d e f g} {
lappend x $i $j $k
}
# The value of x is "a d e b f g c {} {}"
# There are 3 iterations of the loop.
SEE ALSO
for(3tcl), while(3tcl), break(3tcl), continue(3tcl)
KEYWORDS
foreach, iteration, list, looping
Tcl foreach(3tcl)