Need to make sense of "array get arr" output response

[LilTCLer]

I'm trying to make sense out of the "array get" output:

This is my array:
portHandleArray(0): 1
portHandleArray(1): 2
portHandleArray(2): 3
portHandleArray(3): 4
portHandleArray(4): 11
portHandleArray(5): 12
portHandleArray(6): 13
portHandleArray(7): 14

tclsh>array get portHandleArray
4 11 0 1 5 12 1 2 6 13 2 3 7 14 3 4

I guess I would have assumed that the output would look like the following:

0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 11 5 12 6 13 7 14

where each odd numbered element is the index, and the even is the value. Can someone explain why I am seeing the output I am seeing?

TIA

 

[Bong]

the "array get" function is not ordered. The "key-value" pairs are simply presented as "complete" but in no particular order. So, for instance, as long as 0 is paired with 1 and 4 is paired with 11, wherever they occur in the list is valid and, more importantly, correctly interpreted by "array set".

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Bob Rashkin

 

[LilTCLer]

So is there anyway to return them where each odd numbered element is the index, and the even is the value?

 

[Bong]

I'm not sure what you mean. In the example you posted, array get returned:

4 11 0 1 5 12 1 2 6 13 2 3 7 14 3 4

That means that the array indices: 4,0,5,1,6,2,7,3 correspond to array values: 11,1,12,2,13,3,14,4

That is, they already alternate: index, value, index, value,...
They're just not in any order. Remember that arrays in Tcl are hash tables. Just because you've indexed the array numerically, to Tcl those indices are still strings. They might just as well be "zero, one, two,..." as "0, 1, 2,..."

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Bob Rashkin

 

[LilTCLer]

Ok thanks!