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Arrays with strings?

2009-09-29T13:21:22-04:00

worked like a charm!!!

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by Fill — Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:21 pm

Arrays with strings?

2009-09-28T14:55:06-04:00

sorry I mistyped my post. I wanted to write #channel1 instead of #channel 1

anyway, will try it again. thx for the help (I will be back to say what happened )

See you

Statistics: Posted by Fill — Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:55 pm

Arrays with strings?

2009-09-28T14:03:33-04:00

In Tcl there are only really string values. There are no other data types.

Numbers are strings. They are only treated as numbers when used in the context of a number.

Array element names are strings, as are array element values.

Even a list is a special type of string where any list defining characters are also stored in the string.

I think Tcl is the only language I have used that has this distinct lack of data types. It took me a long time to become comfortable with it.

Statistics: Posted by arfer — Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:03 pm

Arrays with strings?

2009-09-28T13:40:01-04:00

Obviously the code you pasted is going to throw an error since the arguments are not balanced (i.e. #channel 1 ...etc). Try

Code:

array set messages { #channel1 "your string here" #channel2 "another string here"}

and it should perfectly work.

Statistics: Posted by Sir_Fz — Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:40 pm

Arrays with strings?

2009-09-28T12:28:28-04:00

Hey guys,

I was wondering if there is any kind of arrays where you can use strings. In a normal array, syntax is something like:

Code:

array set  {  Type     Value}

e.g.

Code:

array set blah {  prizes        19  victories     44  lostgames  6}

What if I wanted to use strings instead of numbers in the array values?

e.g.

Code:

array set messages {  #channel 1        "I'm trying to make strings working on arrays"  #channel2         "This is the message that will be shown on channel2."}

and so forth and so forth.... I tried to do it like that, but I got an error when I rehashed and loaded the script.

Any suggestions?

Statistics: Posted by Fill — Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:28 pm