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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What does "in" do? Post 302815519 by Afrosephurai on Saturday 1st of June 2013 05:09:46 AM
Old 06-01-2013
What does "in" do?

Code:
select varname in opt1 opt2...optN
do
   case $varname in
      opt1)  command1;;
      opt2)  command2;;
      optN)  commandN;;
   esac
done



Looking at this skeleton for a select statement, I am baffled as to what exactly "in" does. Does it pass a reference off from the first variable to the second?

I apologize for such a beginner question.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-01-2013 at 06:18 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
global - Access global variables SYNOPSIS
global varname ?varname ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command has no effect unless executed in the context of a proc body. If the global command is executed in the context of a proc body, it creates local variables linked to the corresponding global variables (though these linked variables, like those created by upvar, are not included in the list returned by info locals). If varname contains namespace qualifiers, the local variable's name is the unqualified name of the global variable, as determined by the namespace tail command. varname is always treated as the name of a variable, not an array element. An error is returned if the name looks like an array element, such as a(b). EXAMPLES
This procedure sets the namespace variable ::a::x proc reset {} { global a::x set x 0 } This procedure accumulates the strings passed to it in a global buffer, separated by newlines. It is useful for situations when you want to build a message piece-by-piece (as if with puts) but send that full message in a single piece (e.g. over a connection opened with socket or as part of a counted HTTP response). proc accum {string} { global accumulator append accumulator $string } SEE ALSO
namespace(n), upvar(n), variable(n) KEYWORDS
global, namespace, procedure, variable Tcl global(n)
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