man tag (Fonctions bibliothèques) - Manipulate tagged files

NAME

tag - Manipulate tagged files

SYNOPSIS

tag option ?arg arg ...?

DESCRIPTION

The tag procedure provides a number of options for manipulating tagged files.

COMMANDS

tag readfile filename

Reads the file with the given filename and returns a list where each list element is a tag record, which is represented by a list of label-value pairs, or label-value-endlabel triples.

The tag header is the first element returned.

tag writefile filename list

Takes a list in the format used internally in tcl programs for tagged data and writes it as a tagged file.

tag extract list tests

Takes a list in tagged format, and a list of conditions, and returns a new list in tagged format which contains those tag records which match the conditions.

The tests is a list of test items, each of which is a list of the form { labelname condition matchvalue }

The conditions are

==
String equals
!=
String not equal
<=
Less than or equal
-in
Is the test value a member of the list given as the matchvalue
-contains
Does the match value contain the test value as a case insensitive substring.
-earlier
Date earlier
-later
Date later - dates are in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd [hh:mm:ss]).
-exists
Does the label exist in this record.

BUGS

tag readfile reads the whole file into memory before turning it into a list. Should be more memory efficient.

The -earlier and -later comparisons require TCL8.3

AUTHOR

John Lines (john@paladin.demon.co.uk)