NAME

       lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element

SYNOPSIS

       lsearch ?options? list pattern
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DESCRIPTION

       This  command searches the elements of list to see if one of them matches pattern.  If so,
       the command returns the index of the first matching element (unless the  options  -all  or │
       -inline  are  specified.)  If not, the command returns -1.  The option arguments indicates
       how the elements of the list are to be matched against pattern and it must have one of the
       following values:

       -all   Changes  the  result to be the list of all matching indices (or all matching values │
              if -inline is specified as well.)

       -ascii The list elements are to be examined as Unicode strings (the name is for  backward-
              compatability  reasons.)   This  option is only meaningful when used with -exact or
              -sorted.

       -decreasing
              The list elements are sorted in decreasing order.  This option is  only  meaningful
              when used with -sorted.

       -dictionary
              The  list elements are to be compared using dictionary-style comparisons (see lsort
              for a fuller description).  This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or
              -sorted,  and  it  is  only distinguishable from the -ascii option when the -sorted
              option is given, because values are only dictionary-equal when exactly equal.

       -exact The list element must contain exactly the same string as pattern.

       -glob  Pattern is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each  list  element  using
              the same rules as the string match command.

       -increasing
              The  list  elements are sorted in increasing order.  This option is only meaningful
              when used with -sorted.

       -inline
              The matching value is returned instead of its index (or an empty string if no value │
              matches.)  If -all is also specified, then the result of the command is the list of │
              all values that matched.

       -integer
              The list elements are to be compared as integers.  This option is  only  meaningful
              when used with -exact or -sorted.

       -not   This  negates the sense of the match, returning the index of the first non-matching │
              value in the list.

       -real  The list elements are to be compared as floating-point values.  This option is only
              meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted.

       -regexp
              Pattern  is  treated  as a regular expression and matched against each list element
              using the rules described in the re_syntax reference page.

       -sorted
              The list elements are in sorted order.  If this option is specified,  lsearch  will
              use  a  more efficient searching algorithm to search list.  If no other options are
              specified, list is assumed to be sorted in increasing order, and to  contain  ASCII
              strings.   This option is mutually exclusive with -glob and -regexp, and is treated
              exactly like -exact when either -all, or -not is specified.

       -start index
              The list is searched starting at position index.  If index has the  value  end,  it │
              refers  to the last element in the list, and end-integer refers to the last element │
              in the list minus the specified integer offset.

       If option is omitted then it defaults to -glob.   If  more  than  one  of  -exact,  -glob,
       -regexp,  and  -sorted  is specified, whichever option is specified last takes precedence.
       If more than one of -ascii, -dictionary, -integer  and  -real  is  specified,  the  option
       specified  last  takes  precedence.   If  more  than one of -increasing and -decreasing is
       specified, the option specified last takes precedence.

EXAMPLES                                                                                          │
              lsearch {a b c d e} c => 2                                                          │
              lsearch -all {a b c a b c} c => 2 5                                                 │
              lsearch -inline {a20 b35 c47} b* => b35                                             │
              lsearch -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20                                        │
              lsearch -all -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20 c47                               │
              lsearch -all -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => 0 2                                           │
              lsearch -start 3 {a b c a b c} c => 5                                               │

SEE ALSO

       foreach(3tcl),  list(3tcl),  lappend(3tcl),  lindex(3tcl),  linsert(3tcl),  llength(3tcl), │
       lset(3tcl), lsort(3tcl), lrange(3tcl), lreplace(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string