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Re: [newbie]substitution - square brackets
From: Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 18:03:18 CET
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 18:03:18 CET
On 13 Mar 2006 08:43:04 -0800, getshorter@gmail.com wrote:
>I am trying to learn Tcl with the help of TclTutor. I seemed to
>understand substitutions, but, when playing around with the examples, I
>tried out this:
>
>set foo [puts test]
>
>and I did not understand what the interpreter returned (a void string).
>I would expect to see the variable $foo set to "test".
>
>As you can you guess, I'm a very beginner.
>Hope you can help me,
Have a look at the thread 'Bryan Oakley help' from March 8th - it
talks essentially about this exact question.
HTH
Helmut Giese
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:31:07 2006