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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>lassign</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet"><link rel="up" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="prev" href="incr0.html" title="incr0"><link rel="next" href="lempty.html" title="lempty"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lassign</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="incr0.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lempty.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="refentry" title="lassign"><div class="refentry.separator"><hr></div><a name="lassign"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>lassign &#8212; Assign a list of values to a list of variables</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis" style="width:80%"><div style="background:#ccccff ; margin:1ex ; padding:.4ex; padding-left: 0.8ex; word-spacing:1ex "><span style="font-weight:bold ; font-family:monospace">lassign</span> ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">value_list</span>? ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">variables</span>?</div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a name="idp5961232"></a><h2>Description</h2><p style="width:90%">
<span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>lassign</strong></span></span> emulates the TclX lassign command. It accepts
a list variables and treats the rest as a list of variable names that will
be assigned with the values in the caller's scope
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</p><pre style="background:#ccc; margin: 2ex; margin-right: 10%; padding: 1ex; border: dashed black 1px ; white-space: pre; font-family: monospace; font-size: 90%;" class="programlisting"># lassign {1 2 3} a b c
# set a
1
# set b
2
# set c
3</pre><p style="width:90%">
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