for(n) Tcl Built-In Commands for(n)
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NAME
for - 'For' loop
SYNOPSIS
for start test next body
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DESCRIPTION
For is a looping command, similar in structure to the C for statement. The start, next,
and body arguments must be Tcl command strings, and test is an expression string. The for
command first invokes the Tcl interpreter to execute start. Then it repeatedly evaluates
test as an expression; if the result is non-zero it invokes the Tcl interpreter on body,
then invokes the Tcl interpreter on next, then repeats the loop. The command terminates
when test evaluates to 0. If a continue command is invoked within body then any remaining
commands in the current execution of body are skipped; processing continues by invoking
the Tcl interpreter on next, then evaluating test, and so on. If a break command is
invoked within body or next, then the for command will return immediately. The operation
of break and continue are similar to the corresponding statements in C. For returns an
empty string.
Note: test should almost always be enclosed in braces. If not, variable substitutions
will be made before the for command starts executing, which means that variable changes
made by the loop body will not be considered in the expression. This is likely to result
in an infinite loop. If test is enclosed in braces, variable substitutions are delayed
until the expression is evaluated (before each loop iteration), so changes in the vari-
ables will be visible. See below for an example:
EXAMPLES
Print a line for each of the integers from 0 to 10:
for {set x 0} {$x<10} {incr x} {
puts "x is $x"
}
Either loop infinitely or not at all because the expression being evaluated is actually
the constant, or even generate an error! The actual behaviour will depend on whether the
variable x exists before the for command is run and whether its value is a value that is
less than or greater than/equal to ten, and this is because the expression will be substi-
tuted before the for command is executed.
for {set x 0} $x<10 {incr x} {
puts "x is $x"
}
Print out the powers of two from 1 to 1024:
for {set x 1} {$x<=1024} {set x [expr {$x * 2}]} {
puts "x is $x"
}
SEE ALSO
break, continue, foreach, while
KEYWORDS
for, iteration, looping
Tcl for(n)
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