lsearch(3Tcl)

lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element

As shipped in IRIX 6.5. First release of IRIX 6.5.

NAME
     lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element

SYNOPSIS
     lsearch ?mode? list pattern


DESCRIPTION
     This command searches the elements of list to see if one of them matches
     pattern.  If so, the command returns the index of the first matching
     element.  If not, the command returns -1.  The mode argument indicates   |
     how the elements of the list are to be matched against pattern and it    |
     must have one of the following values:

     -exact
          The list element must contain exactly the same string as pattern.   |

     -glob
          Pattern is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each list  |
          element using the same rules as the string match command.

     -regexp
          Pattern is treated as a regular expression and matched against each |
          list element using the same rules as the regexp command.            |

     If mode is omitted then it defaults to -glob.


KEYWORDS
     list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string