Re: Weird Error Msg

SuNnY wrote:
On Feb 5, 6:34 pm, Bryan Oakley <oak...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SuNnY wrote:
Hi all !!
I am working on file and string searching. while executing my code , i
am getting this strange error msg. i tried everything but cudnt crack
what tclsh is trying to tell me ...
here is the complete error msg:
list element in quotes followed by "." instead of space
while executing
"foreach Str $TestStr {
"List element in quotes followed by <some character>" means the variable
doesn't contain a valid list (by virtue of it having a non-whitespace
character immediately after a quoting character).

My guess is, you're taking a random string from a file or from user
input and are trying to use it as a Tcl list, which you should not be doing.

--
Bryan Oakleywww.tclscripting.com

Hi !!

Well yes, i have to search for a particular string in a directory. my
idea is to search for particular type of file, and search for
particular string in each file.
But when while searching for files in a directory, the program stops
when it encounters more than one "." in the file/directory name. I try
to catch the list of the files in a list and then by using foreach i
am reading and searching file for particular string.

How to over come this ? problem

You aren't showing us your actual code. The problem you are trying to solve is trivial, but apparently the way you are going about it is not.

How are you doing the "search for particular type of file" part of the algorithm? You should probably be using the "glob" command, but I'm guessing you're not since the "list" of files you are iterating over isn't a valid list.

Step one in us helping you solve the problem is to show us how you are computing the list of files you are iterating over.




Also can someone guide me to complete documentation on file searching
( not the content of file)

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/glob.htm



--
Bryan Oakley
www.tclscripting.com
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