Re: strings in TcL

Darren New <dnew@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Cameron Laird wrote:
[string match #* $data]

if {"#" == [string index $data 0]} {...}

if { ![string first "#" $data] }

unfortunately involves a negation of the meaning you would get by
reading the words, much like [string compare] for testing equality.


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