'\" '\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. '\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. '\" Copyright (c) 2001 Kevin B. Kenny. All rights reserved. '\" '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" '\" RCS: @(#) $Id: lrange.n,v 1.1.1.1 2007/07/10 15:04:23 duncan Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH lrange n 7.4 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! .SH NAME lrange \- Return one or more adjacent elements from a list .SH SYNOPSIS \fBlrange \fIlist first last\fR .BE .SH DESCRIPTION .PP \fIList\fR must be a valid Tcl list. This command will return a new list consisting of elements \fIfirst\fR through \fIlast\fR, inclusive. \fIFirst\fR or \fIlast\fR may be \fBend\fR (or any abbreviation of it) to refer to the last element of the list. If \fIfirst\fR is less than zero, it is treated as if it were zero. If \fIlast\fR is greater than or equal to the number of elements in the list, then it is treated as if it were \fBend\fR. If \fIfirst\fR is greater than \fIlast\fR then an empty string is returned. Note: ``\fBlrange \fIlist first first\fR'' does not always produce the same result as ``\fBlindex \fIlist first\fR'' (although it often does for simple fields that aren't enclosed in braces); it does, however, produce exactly the same results as ``\fBlist [lindex \fIlist first\fB]\fR'' .SH EXAMPLES Selecting the first two elements: .CS % \fBlrange\fR {a b c d e} 0 1 a b .CE .PP Selecting the last three elements: .CS % \fBlrange\fR {a b c d e} end-2 end c d e .CE .PP Selecting everything except the first and last element: .CS % \fBlrange\fR {a b c d e} 1 end-1 b c d .CE .PP Selecting a single element with \fBlrange\fR is not the same as doing so with \fBlindex\fR: .CS % set var {some {elements to} select} some {elements to} select % lindex $var 1 elements to % \fBlrange\fR $var 1 1 {elements to} .CE .SH "SEE ALSO" .VS 8.4 list(n), lappend(n), lindex(n), linsert(n), llength(n), lsearch(n), lset(n), lreplace(n), lsort(n) .VE .SH KEYWORDS element, list, range, sublist