TCLWISE
An introduction to the Tcl programming language
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The following is a list of the topics that are missing on this site but
that will be included in the printed version of the book (a few will be
included in this site for free also):
- Error handling
- Building abstractions with Tcl lists
- Arrays
- Dictionaries
- Math and expressions
- Advanced string matching and regular expressions
- Files and channels
- Event driven programming
- Network programming with Tcl
- Time related commands
- Working with binary data
- Namespaces
- Buliding libraries
- Introspection
- Functional programming with Tcl
- The unknown command and radical language modifications
- Writing fast code
- Web programming with Tcl
- Using Mysql
- Tcl Interpreters and safe interpreters
- Object oriented programming
- Writing hping3 scripts
- Programming the Eggdrop with Tcl scripts
- A Tk tutorial
- Appendix: Tcl programming pearls (commented beutiful fragments of code)
- Appendix: The endecalogue
- Appendix: A framework for source level transformations
Other Tcl/Tk books
Index
2.1 Anatomy of a command
2.2 Grouping
2.3 Program structure
2.4 Substitution of commands
2.5 Substitution of variables
2.6 More on interpolation
2.7 Comments
2.8 That's it
3.1 User defined procedures
3.2 The if command
4.1 Tcl list
4.2 The foreach command
4.3 The lrange command
4.4 The lappend command
4.5 The lset command
4.6 The lsort command
4.7 List values against variable names
5.1 The append command
5.2 The string command
5.3 string range
5.4 string index
5.5 string equal
5.6 string compare
5.7 string match
5.8 string map
5.9 string is
5.10 More string subcommands
5.11 Advanced string matching
6.1 Converting strings to lists
6.2 From strings to list of chars
6.3 Converting lists to strings
6.4 Manipulating strings as lists
7.1 Local variables
7.2 Top level
7.3 Global variables
7.4 Procedures arguments and pass by value
7.5 Procedures with a variable number of arguments
7.6 Procedures with default arguments
7.7 Recursion
7.8 Recursion limit
8.1 The switch command
8.2 The for command
8.3 break and continue
8.4 The lack of goto
9.1 Programs executing programs: the eval command
9.2 Breaking the rules with uplevel
9.3 Passing variable names to procedures
9.4 Mapping scripts to lists
9.5 The rename command
9.6 Expanding lists into arguments in Tcl 8.5
Additional 20 chapters in the printed version.
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