NAME

       textutil::string - Procedures to manipulate texts and strings.

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require textutil::string  ?0.7?

       ::textutil::string::chop string

       ::textutil::string::tail string

       ::textutil::string::cap string

       ::textutil::string::uncap string

       ::textutil::string::longestCommonPrefixList list

       ::textutil::string::longestCommonPrefix ?string...?

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DESCRIPTION

       The package textutil::string provides miscellaneous string manipulation commands.

       The complete set of procedures is described below.

       ::textutil::string::chop string
              A  convenience  command.  Removes  the  last  character  of  string and returns the
              shortened string.

       ::textutil::string::tail string
              A convenience command. Removes the  first  character  of  string  and  returns  the
              shortened string.

       ::textutil::string::cap string
              Capitalizes the first character of string and returns the modified string.

       ::textutil::string::uncap string
              The  complementary operation to ::textutil::string::cap. Forces the first character
              of string to lower case and returns the modified string.

       ::textutil::string::longestCommonPrefixList list

       ::textutil::string::longestCommonPrefix ?string...?
              Computes the longest common prefix for either the strings given to the command,  or
              the  strings  specified  in  the  single  list, and returns it as the result of the
              command.

              If no strings were specified the result is the empty string.  If  only  one  string
              was  specified,  the  string  itself  is  returned, as it is its own longest common
              prefix.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK

       This document, and the package it describes,  will  undoubtedly  contain  bugs  and  other
       problems.   Please  report  such  in  the  category  textutil  of  the  Tcllib SF Trackers
       [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].   Please  also  report  any  ideas   for
       enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation.

SEE ALSO

       regexp(3tcl), split(3tcl), string(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       capitalize, chop, common prefix, formatting, prefix, string, uncapitalize

CATEGORY

       Text processing