lsearch(n) Tcl (7.0) 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 matching 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 same rules as the
regexp command.
If mode is omitted then it defaults to -glob.
KEYWORDS
list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string
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