A Very Newbie Question

[MinHRoberts]

I'm very new to tcl and I'm trying to strip out any ','s that's embedded in a field. I'm using the regsub command and while testing it using the following, before putting it in my "real" script I keep getting this error...

set namer "john, smith"
> john, smith
regsub -all , " " $namer
> wrong # args: should be "regsub ?switches? exp string subSpec varName"

What ame I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help
Herman

 

[feherke]

Hi

Depends on version. For exemple in my 8.3 the fourth parameter is mandatory.

[blue]%[/blue] set namer "john, smith"
john, smith
[blue]%[/blue] regsub -all , $namer " " namer
1
[blue]%[/blue] puts $namer
john  smith

Note, that you used the parameters in wrong order.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[MinHRoberts]

Thanks feherke that was the problem, I needed that forth parameter. now Another question...

If I was using it in an array would it go like this;
set temp_str $temp_str\"[regsub -all , $rdata(cardholdername) "" cardholdername]\", .....or.....
set temp_str $temp_str\"[regsub -all , $rdata(cardholdername) "" rdata(cardholdername)]\",

 

[feherke]

Hi

Probably the second is what you want. But this depends on your goal.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[h2h1995]

puts [string map {, {}} "a, c, d"]