concat - Join lists together
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Description
This command joins each of its arguments together with spaces after trimming leading and trailing white-
space from each of them. If all of the arguments are lists, this has the same effect as concatenating
them into a single list. Arguments that are empty (after trimming) are ignored entirely. It permits any
number of arguments; if no args are supplied, the result is an empty string.
Examples
Although concat will concatenate lists, flattening them in the process (so giving the following
interactive session):
%concat a b {c d e} {f {g h}}
abcdef{gh}
it will also concatenate things that are not lists, as can be seen from this session:
%concat " a b {c " d " e} f"
ab{cde}f
Note also that the concatenation does not remove spaces from the middle of values, as can be seen here:
%concat "a b c" { d e f }
abcdef
(i.e., there are three spaces between each of the a, the b and the c).
For true list concatenation, the list command should be used with expansion of each input list:
% list {*}"a b c" {*}{ d e f }
abcdefKeywords
concatenate, join, list
Tcl 8.3 concat(3tcl)
Name
concat - Join lists together
See Also
append(3tcl), eval(3tcl), join(3tcl), list(3tcl)
Synopsis
concat ?argarg...? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
