Re: list or not a list?

Hello Bryan,

Does one or the other of those behaviors surprise you? Which one?

To be honest - none of those behaviours surprise me.

But ... to be honest too ... I was suprised, because I forgot the
grouping character of quotes inside a string, that is used as a list.

So - everything as simple as it should be with tcl!

Best regards,

Martin Lemburg

On Jan 15, 6:26 pm, Bryan Oakley <oak...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MartinLemburg@UGS wrote:
Hello,

I was a bit astonished using such tcl code:

...
I thought, that the blank-separated characters in the string, treated
as list, will be recognized as list elements, but I can't really
understand, why the quotes surrounded by blanks are not recognized.

Can somebody light me up?When you implicitly cause a string to be converted to a list, such as
when you do [llength $string], it is *not* the same as doing [split
$string]. As your code demonstrates, you get two different values.

As you can see, split takes it's job quite seriously -- it looks for
spaces and splits on each space. That is why you end up with seven
elements; each group of characters (including quotes) that are
surrounded by spaces becomes a list element.

OTOH, when implicitly converting a string to a list, the tcl parser
assumes that quote characters are used to delimit elements in the list.

Does one or the other of those behaviors surprise you? Which one?

.

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