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- /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * @(#) Eval.3 26.1 93/10/22 SCOINC
- *
- * Copyright (C) The Santa Cruz Operation, 1992-1993.
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- .so ../man.macros
- .HS Tcl_Eval tclc 7.0
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- Tcl_Eval, Tcl_VarEval, Tcl_EvalFile, Tcl_GlobalEval \- execute Tcl commands
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
- .sp
- int
- .VS
- \fBTcl_Eval\fR(\fIinterp, cmd\fR)
- .VE
- .sp
- int
- \fBTcl_VarEval\fR(\fIinterp, string, string, ... \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
- .sp
- int
- \fBTcl_EvalFile\fR(\fIinterp, fileName\fR)
- .sp
- int
- \fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR(\fIinterp, cmd\fR)
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AS Tcl_Interp **termPtr;
- .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
- Interpreter in which to execute the command. String result will be
- stored in \fIinterp->result\fR.
- .AP char *cmd in
- Command (or sequence of commands) to execute. Must be in writable
- memory (\fBTcl_Eval\fR makes temporary modifications to the command).
- .AP char *string in
- String forming part of Tcl command.
- .AP char *fileName in
- Name of file containing Tcl command string.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- All four of these procedures execute Tcl commands.
- \fBTcl_Eval\fR is the core procedure: it parses commands
- from \fIcmd\fR and executes them in
- .VS
- order until either an error occurs or it reaches the end of the string.
- .VE
- The return value from \fBTcl_Eval\fR is one
- of the Tcl return codes \fBTCL_OK\fR, \fBTCL_ERROR\fR, \fBTCL_RETURN\fR, \fBTCL_BREAK\fR, or
- \fBTCL_CONTINUE\fR, and \fIinterp->result\fR will point to
- a string with additional information (result value or error message).
- This return information corresponds to the last command executed from
- \fIcmd\fR.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_VarEval\fR takes any number of string arguments
- of any length, concatenates
- them into a single string, then calls \fBTcl_Eval\fR to
- execute that string as a Tcl command.
- It returns the result of the command and also modifies
- \fIinterp->result\fR in the usual fashion for Tcl commands. The
- last argument to \fBTcl_VarEval\fR must be NULL to indicate the end
- of arguments.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_EvalFile\fR reads the file given by \fIfileName\fR and evaluates
- its contents as a Tcl command by calling \fBTcl_Eval\fR. It returns
- a standard Tcl result that reflects the result of evaluating the
- file.
- If the file couldn't be read then a Tcl error is returned to describe
- why the file couldn't be read.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_GlobalEval\fR is similar to \fBTcl_Eval\fR except that it
- processes the command at global level.
- This means that the variable context for the command consists of
- global variables only (it ignores any Tcl procedure that is active).
- This produces an effect similar to the Tcl command ``\fBuplevel 0\fR''.
- .PP
- During the processing of a Tcl command it is legal to make nested
- calls to evaluate other commands (this is how conditionals, loops,
- and procedures are implemented).
- If a code other than
- \fBTCL_OK\fR is returned from a nested \fBTcl_Eval\fR invocation, then the
- caller should normally return immediately, passing that same
- return code back to its caller, and so on until the top-level application is
- reached. A few commands, like \fBfor\fR, will check for certain
- return codes, like \fBTCL_BREAK\fR and \fBTCL_CONTINUE\fR, and process them
- specially without returning.
- .PP
- \fBTcl_Eval\fR keeps track of how many nested Tcl_Eval invocations are
- in progress for \fIinterp\fR.
- If a code of \fBTCL_RETURN\fR, \fBTCL_BREAK\fR, or \fBTCL_CONTINUE\fR is
- about to be returned from the topmost \fBTcl_Eval\fR invocation for
- \fIinterp\fR, then \fBTcl_Eval\fR converts the return code to \fBTCL_ERROR\fR
- and sets \fIinterp->result\fR to point to an error message indicating that
- the \fBreturn\fR, \fBbreak\fR, or \fBcontinue\fR command was
- invoked in an inappropriate place. This means that top-level
- applications should never see a return code from \fBTcl_Eval\fR other then
- \fBTCL_OK\fR or \fBTCL_ERROR\fR.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- command, execute, file, global, interpreter, variable
-