Invoking Scripts from C
The main program is not the only place you can evaluate a Tcl script. You can use the Tcl_Eval procedure essentially at any time to evaluate a Tcl command:
Tcl_Eval(Tcl_Interp *interp, char *command);
The command is evaluated in the current Tcl procedure scope, which may be the global scope. This means that calls like Tcl_GetVar and Tcl_SetVar access variables in the current scope. If for some reason you want a new procedure scope, the easiest thing to do is to call your C code from a Tcl procedure used for this purpose. It is not easy to create a new procedure scope with the exported C API.
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