Arrays with strings?

[Fill]

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:

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array set <arrayname> {
  Type     Value
}

e.g.

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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.

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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?

[Sir_Fz]

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

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

and it should perfectly work.

[arfer]

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.

[Fill]

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

[Fill]

worked like a charm!!!

Thanks