redhat man page for lsearch

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

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NAME
       lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element

SYNOPSIS
       lsearch ?mode? list pattern
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DESCRIPTION
       This command searches the elements of list to see if one of them matches pattern.  If so, the command returns the index of the first match-
       ing element.  If not, the command returns -1.  The mode argument indicates how the elements of the list are to be matched  against  pattern
       and it must have one of the following values:

       -exact The list element must contain exactly the same string as pattern.

       -glob  Pattern is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each list element using the same rules as the string match command.

       -regexp
	      Pattern  is  treated as a regular expression and matched against each list element using the rules described in the re_syntax refer-
	      ence page.

       If mode is omitted then it defaults to -glob.

KEYWORDS
       list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string

Tcl									7.0								lsearch(n)