Search in file

[The_Deputy]

Hello,

I have a file which contains a kind of addressbook eg:
1 Robert Cook Road_Seven_98 Beverly_Hills 081023445
2 Peter Cook Road_Seven_98 Beverly_Hills 08934752435

end so on.
The format of this file is Identifier [SPACE] Firstname [SPACE] Lastname [SPACE] Address [SPACE] City [Space] Phonenumber

I'd like to have an IRC script which provide me the info of a person based on the identifier by example in IRC i do /msg botnick address1 and that the bot answers with the line 1 of the file

Could anyone help me, I'm not a TCL specialist and I get stuck after trying several things

[nml375]

I guess you could approach this in several different ways, I'd suggest you open the file and read it line by line, using a "while {![eof $fid]} {.." loop.
Then split each line into a list, and use lindex to extract the identifier number. If it matches, print the line, otherwize move on to the next line.

[The_Deputy]

At this moment I have this code which give me all the lines printed out

set in [open "filename.dat" r]
set line [split [read $in] \n]
close $in
puts [lindex $line]

so after the close command I have to search with the index I guess

How can I do this ?
On the internet isn't much information on learning tcl scripting

[Alchera]

Beginners Guide to TCL

[nml375]

In this case it'd be a matter of using a foreach-loop to iterate through the list of lines.

Within that loop, split the current line into a list, and use lindex to extract the id number.