Re: Having problem with SPLIT

Earl Grieda wrote: 
"Bryan Oakley" <oakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Earl Grieda wrote:

I am trying to embed a tab character into a line that gets emailed
to a report generator.  Upon receipt of the email, I go through each
line of it with split since in the past emails have arrived with
unbalanced braces which then caused problems.

The line I send is, \tHeader with a tab.  After the split I get,
{\tHeader} with a tab.  Another line sent without a tab, Header Without
a tab, is unaffected.  What I want is the final line that gets passed to
"puts $reportFile" to be "\tHeader with a tab", but I cannot get rid of
the curly braces.  I know this is my problem but I have run out of


ideas.

Thanks.



split returns a list, so maybe you need to do "puts [lindex
$resultOfSplit 0]" to get your header? It's hard to say without seeing
your actual code. Textual descriptions of code rarely describe the
problem accurately.



Code:

if {$::DEBUG} {puts "FIRST0: $orgLine"}
set line [split $orgLine]
if {$::DEBUG} {puts "FIRST1: $line"}

DEBUG output:

FIRST0: \tHeader with a tab
FIRST1: {\tHeader} with a tab

What you have here is that, after the split, $line is a 4 element list. Maybe the following is illuminating:

  % set orgLine {\tHeader with a tab}
  \tHeader with a tab
  % set line [split $orgLine]
  {\tHeader} with a tab
  % lindex $line 0
  \tHeader
  % llength $line
  4
  % puts $line
  {\tHeader} with a tab
  % foreach elem $line {puts $elem}
  \tHeader
  with
  a
  tab

The curlies not part of element 0, they are part of the string representation of the complete list.

I'm not sure I understand 100% what you want to do. One possibility is that you're after
% puts $orgLine
\tHeader with a tab
Another one is
% puts [join $line]
\tHeader with a tab

HTH
Miguel
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