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)
