lassign(TCL)

lassign -- assign successive elements of a list to specified variables

Syntax

lassign list var [var ...]

Description

Assigns successive elements of a list to specified variables. If there are more variable names than fields, the remaining variables are set to the empty string. If there are more elements than variables, a list of the unassigned elements is returned.

For example,

lassign {dave 100 200 {Dave Foo}} name uid gid longName

assigns name to ``dave'', uid to ``100'', gid to ``200'', and longName to ``Dave Foo''.