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foreach(3tcl) Tcl Built-In Commands foreach(3tcl) 





NAME


foreach - Iterate over all elements in one or more lists






SYNOPSIS


foreach varname list body
  

  foreach varlist1 list1 ?varlist2 list2 ...?
  body










DESCRIPTION


The foreach command implements a loop where the loop
    variable(s) take on values from one or more lists. In the simplest case
    there is one loop variable, varname, and one list, list, that
    is a list of values to assign to varname. The body argument is
    a Tcl script. For each element of list (in order from first to last),
    foreach assigns the contents of the element to varname as if
    the lindex command had been used to extract the element, then calls
    the Tcl interpreter to execute body.


In the general case there can be more than one value list (e.g.,
    list1 and list2), and each value list can be associated with a
    list of loop variables (e.g., varlist1 and varlist2). During
    each iteration of the loop the variables of each varlist are assigned
    consecutive values from the corresponding list. Values in each
    list are used in order from first to last, and each value is used
    exactly once. The total number of loop iterations is large enough to use up
    all the values from all the value lists. If a value list does not contain
    enough elements for each of its loop variables in each iteration, empty
    values are used for the missing elements.


The break and continue statements may be invoked
    inside body, with the same effect as in the for command.
    Foreach returns an empty string.






EXAMPLES


This loop prints every value in a list together with the square
    and cube of the value:






set values {1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8}	;# Odd numbers first, for fun!
puts "Value\tSquare\tCube"	;# Neat-looking header
foreach x $values {	;# Now loop and print...


    puts " $x\t [expr {$x**2}]\t [expr {$x**3}]"
}




The following loop uses i and j as loop variables to iterate over
    pairs of elements of a single list.






set x {}
foreach {i j} {a b c d e f} {


    lappend x $j $i
}
# The value of x is "b a d c f e"
# There are 3 iterations of the loop.




The next loop uses i and j to iterate over two lists in
  parallel.






set x {}
foreach i {a b c} j {d e f g} {


    lappend x $i $j
}
# The value of x is "a d b e c f {} g"
# There are 4 iterations of the loop.




The two forms are combined in the following example.






set x {}
foreach i {a b c} {j k} {d e f g} {


    lappend x $i $j $k
}
# The value of x is "a d e b f g c {} {}"
# There are 3 iterations of the loop.










SEE ALSO


for(3tcl), while(3tcl), break(3tcl), continue(3tcl)








KEYWORDS


foreach, iteration, list, loop







  

    
    Tcl