'\" '\" 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: lindex.n,v 1.2 2001/09/14 01:42:23 zlaski Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH lindex n 7.4 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! .SH NAME lindex \- Retrieve an element from a list .SH SYNOPSIS \fBlindex \fIlist index\fR .BE .SH DESCRIPTION .PP This command treats \fIlist\fR as a Tcl list and returns the \fIindex\fR'th element from it (0 refers to the first element of the list). In extracting the element, \fIlindex\fR observes the same rules concerning braces and quotes and backslashes as the Tcl command interpreter; however, variable substitution and command substitution do not occur. If \fIindex\fR is negative or greater than or equal to the number of elements in \fIvalue\fR, then an empty string is returned. If \fIindex\fR has the value \fBend\fR, it refers to the last element in the list. .SH KEYWORDS element, index, list