Pattern Matching

Many Tcl commands support pattern matching in any of three styles:

exact pattern matching
globbing
regular expressions

Commands that support pattern matching share a common set of options to specify the style:

-exact
-glob
-regexp

Commands That Support Pattern Matching

lsearch: Supports all three forms.
lmatch: Supports all three forms.
switch: Supports all three forms.
string match: Supports globbing.
regexp: Supports regular expressions.
regsub: Supports regular expressions.
scanmatch: Supports regular expressions.

Exact Pattern Matching

Globbing

Regular Expressions

Keith Waclena
The University of Chicago Library
This page last updated: Tue Aug 2 12:22:46 CDT 1994
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