Re: brand new to tcl; newbie question

At 2008-04-29 03:13PM, "Bryan Oakley" wrote:
chedderslam wrote:
I am only a couple of days into tcl and XOWiki. I am trying to call a
basic function but can't figure out how to call one.

proc test {} {
return "text to display"
}

proc content {} {
set somevar test()

return "$somevar"

}

How do you call a function?
i.e. in "set somevar test()" i want to call test...

Thank you.

set somevar [test]

You might also want to look at the Tcl Tutorial:
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html


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