Re: [Tcllib-devel] More file utilities ?

[Reinhard M. <ma...@tc...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 at 13:18, Neil Madden wrote:

> I'd vote for directly into the "fileutil" namespace.

me too. I see no need here to make the command names even longer by 
adding a level of sub-namespaces.

> Perhaps mapfile or filemap or even just map (i.e. [fileutil::map]) 
> as it is quite similar to [string map]? The copy version can be done 
> as an option: fileutil map -copy $outfile $infile key val ...

How about this signature?

fileutil::map {key value ...} infile ?outfile?

It would be a mixture of [string map] (regarding the mapping list) and 
[regsub] (regarding the optional "to" argument).


Off-topic remark: maybe even [string map] could be extended to allow 
an optional "out" argument, so

	set x [string map $map $y]

would become

	string map $map $x y

... and the return value of the command could be the number of 
replacements that have been done, as it is with [regsub]

cu
Reinhard