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info - Return information about the state of the Tcl
interpreter
SYNOPSIS
info option ?arg arg ...?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
This command provides information about various internals
of the Tcl interpreter. The legal option's (which may be
abbreviated) are:
info args procname
Returns a list containing the names of the argu-
ments to procedure procname, in order. Procname
must be the name of a Tcl command procedure.
info body procname
Returns the body of procedure procname. Procname
must be the name of a Tcl command procedure.
info cmdcount
Returns a count of the total number of commands
that have been invoked in this interpreter.
info commands ?pattern?
If pattern isn't specified, returns a list of names
of all the Tcl commands, including both the built-
in commands written in C and the command procedures
defined using the proc command. If pattern is
specified, only those names matching pattern are
returned. Matching is determined using the same
rules as for string match.
info complete command
Returns 1 if command is a complete Tcl command in
the sense of having no unclosed quotes, braces,
brackets or array element names, If the command
doesn't appear to be complete then 0 is returned.
This command is typically used in line-oriented
input environments to allow users to type in com-
mands that span multiple lines; if the command
isn't complete, the script can delay evaluating it
until additional lines have been typed to complete
the command.
info default procname arg varname
Procname must be the name of a Tcl command proce-
dure and arg must be the name of an argument to
that procedure. If arg doesn't have a default
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value then the command returns 0. Otherwise it
returns 1 and places the default value of arg into
variable varname.
info exists varName
Returns 1 if the variable named varName exists in
the current context (either as a global or local
variable), returns 0 otherwise.
info globals ?pattern?
If pattern isn't specified, returns a list of all
the names of currently-defined global variables.
If pattern is specified, only those names matching
pattern are returned. Matching is determined using
the same rules as for string match.
info hostname
Returns the name of the computer on which this
invocation is being executed.
info level ?number?
If number is not specified, this command returns a
number giving the stack level of the invoking pro-
cedure, or 0 if the command is invoked at top-
level. If number is specified, then the result is
a list consisting of the name and arguments for the
procedure call at level number on the stack. If
number is positive then it selects a particular
stack level (1 refers to the top-most active proce-
dure, 2 to the procedure it called, and so on);
otherwise it gives a level relative to the current
level (0 refers to the current procedure, -1 to its
caller, and so on). See the uplevel command for
more information on what stack levels mean.
info library
Returns the name of the library directory in which
standard Tcl scripts are stored. This is actually
the value of the tcl_library variable and may be
changed by setting tcl_library. See the tclvars
manual entry for more information.
info loaded ?interp?
Returns a list describing all of the packages that
have been loaded into interp with the load command.
Each list element is a sub-list with two elements
consisting of the name of the file from which the
package was loaded and the name of the package.
For statically-loaded packages the file name will
be an empty string. If interp is omitted then
information is returned for all packages loaded in
any interpreter in the process. To get a list of
just the packages in the current interpreter, spec-
ify an empty string for the interp argument.
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info locals ?pattern?
If pattern isn't specified, returns a list of all
the names of currently-defined local variables,
including arguments to the current procedure, if
any. Variables defined with the global and upvar
commands will not be returned. If pattern is spec-
ified, only those names matching pattern are
returned. Matching is determined using the same
rules as for string match.
info nameofexecutable
Returns the full path name of the binary file from
which the application was invoked. If Tcl was
unable to identify the file, then an empty string
is returned.
info patchlevel
Returns the value of the global variable tcl_patch-
Level; see the tclvars manual entry for more infor-
mation.
info procs ?pattern?
If pattern isn't specified, returns a list of all
the names of Tcl command procedures. If pattern is
specified, only those names matching pattern are
returned. Matching is determined using the same
rules as for string match.
info script
If a Tcl script file is currently being evaluated
(i.e. there is a call to Tcl_EvalFile active or
there is an active invocation of the source com-
mand), then this command returns the name of the
innermost file being processed. Otherwise the com-
mand returns an empty string.
info sharedlibextension
Returns the extension used on this platform for the
names of files containing shared libraries (for
example, .so under Solaris). If shared libraries
aren't supported on this platform then an empty
string is returned.
info tclversion
Returns the value of the global variable tcl_ver-
sion; see the tclvars manual entry for more infor-
mation.
info vars ?pattern?
If pattern isn't specified, returns a list of all
the names of currently-visible variables, including
both locals and currently-visible globals. If pat-
tern is specified, only those names matching pat-
tern are returned. Matching is determined using
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the same rules as for string match.
KEYWORDS
command, information, interpreter, level, procedure, vari-
able
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