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Giving back a Value

Help for those learning Tcl or writing their own scripts.
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Giving back a Value

Post by Nimos »

how can I set what a proc gives back after ending?

e.g.

set something [some.proc here]

how can i choose what [some.proc] is?
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Post by Sir_Fz »

To control what you want a procedure to return, use the [return] command. Example:

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proc whatever {a b c} {
 return "returns a string"
}
this will return a string containing "returns a string." Anything after the return statement is ignored.
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