- Tcl/Tk 8.5 Programming Cookbook
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgment
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. The Tcl Shell
- 2. Using the Building Blocks Control Constructs
- 3. Error Handling
- 4. Handling String Expressions
- Introduction
- Appending to a string
- Formatting a string
- Matching a regular expression within a string
- Performing character substitution on a string
- Parsing a string using conversion specifiers
- Determining the length of a string
- Comparing strings
- Comparing a string of characters
- Locating the first instance of a character
- Locating the index of a character
- Determining the class of a string
- Locating the last instance of a string
- Determining the size of a string
- Replacing values within a string
- Locating a pattern within a string
- Returning a range of characters from a string
- Creating a string of repeated characters
- Replacing ranges of characters contained within a string
- Creating a reverse string
- Converting a string to lowercase
- Converting a string to title
- Converting a string to uppercase
- Trimming a string
- Trimming leading whitespace
- Trimming trailing whitespace
- Locating the word end
- Locating the word start
- Performing variable substitution
- 5. Expanding String Functionality Using Lists
- Introduction
- Creating a list
- Joining two lists
- Joining list elements
- Appending list elements
- Assigning list elements to variables
- Retrieving an element from a list
- Inserting elements into a list
- Determining the number of elements
- Getting a list element
- Repeating elements
- Replacing elements
- Reversing elements
- Searching a list
- Editing a list
- Sorting a list
- Splitting a string into a list
- 6. The Tcl Dictionary
- Introduction
- Creating a dictionary
- Appending to a dictionary
- Determining if a key exists
- Filtering a dictionary
- Searching a dictionary
- Getting a record
- Incrementing a value
- Getting the dictionary structure
- Getting a list of keys
- Appending to an existing record
- Merging two dictionaries
- Creating a blank dictionary structure
- Updating variables from a dictionary
- Determining the size of a dictionary
- Getting all records
- Assigning values
- 7. File Operations
- 8. Tk GUI Programming with Tcl/Tk
- 9. Configuring and Controlling Tk Widgets
- 10. Geometry Management
- 11. Using Tcl Built-in Dialog Windows
- 12. Creating and Managing Menus
- 13. Creating the Address Book Application
In a large character string, it may become necessary to know what is the end of a word. For example, we may require this information in order to determine where to extract data for a variable. To accomplish this, Tcl has provided the wordend keyword.
The syntax of the string command is as follows:
string wordend string index
This command will return the index of the first character that immediately follows the last character of the word contained within the string that is located at the value passed in index. In Tcl, a word is any contiguous range of alphanumeric characters (for example cat, dog, 123).
In the following example, we will determine the end of a word contained within a string. Return values from the commands are provided for clarity. Enter the following command:
% string wordend "Now is the time" 2
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