Escape a DOLLAR sign.

[mbitzko]

How do you escape a string value containing a dollar sign to avoid TCL attempting to treat it as a variable. I have some values that I'm filling a table or form with that begin with a $ such as $1I045, and I want to pass the value through directly without treating it as a variable.

 

[feherke]

Hi

[blue]%[/blue] set pi 3.14
3.14

[blue]%[/blue] puts "\$pi=$pi"
$pi=3.14

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ulis]

Maybe you don't need to do anything.

  set var {$12345}
  set list [list $var $var]
  puts $list

The {} protect a string from the Tcl interpretation of $.
Once in a value, the $ is ignored by Tcl (unless you use eval or uplevel).

ulis