Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

The array Command

The array command returns information about array variables. The array names command returns the index names that are defined in the array. If the array variable is not defined, then array names just returns an empty list. It allows easy iteration through an array with a foreach loop:

foreach index [array names arr pattern] {
    # use arr($index)
}

The order of the names returned by array names is arbitrary. It is essentially determined by the hash table implementation of the array. You can limit what names are returned by specifying a pattern that matches indices. The pattern is the kind supported by the string match command, which is described on page 48.

It is also possible to iterate through the elements of an array one at ...