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WilliamKF
WilliamKF

Reputation: 43089

How to concisely concatenate strings in Tcl?

I can easily concatenate two variables, foo and bar, as follows in Tcl: "${foo}${bar}".

However, if I don't want to put an intermediate result into a variable, how can I easily concatenate the results of calling some proc?

Long hand this would be written:

set foo [myFoo $arg]
set bar [myBar $arg]
set result "${foo}${bar}"

Is there some way to create result without introducing the temporary variables foo and bar?

Doing this is incorrect for my purposes:

concat [myFoo $arg] [myBar $arg]

as it introduces a space between the two results (for list purposes) if one does not exist.

Seems like 'string concat' would be what I want, but it does not appear to be in my version of Tcl interpreter.

string concat [myFoo $arg] [myBar $arg]

String concat is written about here:

Upvotes: 22

Views: 42356

Answers (3)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385830

You can embed commands within a double-quoted string without the need for a temporary variable:

set result "[myFoo $arg][myBar $arg]"

Upvotes: 29

ramanman
ramanman

Reputation: 873

If you are doing this many times, in a loop, or separated by some intermediate code, you might also consider:

set result ""
append result [myFoo $arg]
append result [myBar $arg]
append result [myBaz $arg]

Upvotes: 11

SingleNegationElimination
SingleNegationElimination

Reputation: 156138

just write it as a word with no extra spaces:

[myFoo $arg][myBar $arg]

Tcl sees this as a single word after substitution, regardless of the result of the two subcommands.

Upvotes: 4

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