'\" '\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. '\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. '\" '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" '\" RCS: @(#) $Id: incr.n,v 1.2 2001/09/14 01:42:22 zlaski Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH incr n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! .SH NAME incr \- Increment the value of a variable .SH SYNOPSIS \fBincr \fIvarName \fR?\fIincrement\fR? .BE .SH DESCRIPTION .PP Increments the value stored in the variable whose name is \fIvarName\fR. The value of the variable must be an integer. If \fIincrement\fR is supplied then its value (which must be an integer) is added to the value of variable \fIvarName\fR; otherwise 1 is added to \fIvarName\fR. The new value is stored as a decimal string in variable \fIvarName\fR and also returned as result. .SH KEYWORDS add, increment, variable, value