Extra list manipulation commands

list_remove listName ?item? ...

removes the items from the list

list_push listName ?item? ?position?

opposite of list_pop.

list_unshift listName ?item?

opposite of list_shift: prepends ?item? to the list.

list_set listName ?item? ?indexlist?

sets all elements of the list at the given indices to value ?item?

list_arrayset array varlist valuelist

sets the values of valuelist to the respective elements in varlist for the given array

list_common list list ...

returns the common elements of the lists

list_union list list ...

returns the union of the lists

list_eor list1 list2

returns the elements that are not shared between both lists

list_addnew listName ?item? ...

adds the items to the list if not already there

inlist list value

returns 1 if $value is an element of list $list returns 0 if $value is not an element of list $list

list_load filename

returns all lines in the specified files as a list

list_write file list

writes a list to a file

list_concat list ?list? ?list ...?

This command treats each argument as a list and concatenates them into a single list

list_regsub ?switches? exp list subSpec

does a regsub for each element in the list, and returns the resulting list.
eg.:

	% list_regsub {c$} {afdsg asdc sfgh {dfgh shgfc} dfhg} {!}
	afdsg asd! sfgh {dfgh shgf!} dfhg
	% list_regsub {^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$} {start.sh help.ps h.sh} {\2 \1}
	{sh start} {ps help} {sh h}

list_pop listName ?pos?

returns the last element from a list, thereby removing it from the list. If pos is given it will return the pos element of the list.

list_shift listName

returns the first element from a list, thereby removing it from the list.

list_sub list ?-exclude? [index list]

create a sublist from a set of indices When -exclude is specified, the elements of which the indexes are not in the list will be given.
eg.:

	% list_sub {Ape Ball Field {Antwerp city} Egg} {0 3}
	Ape {Antwerp city}
	% list_sub {Ape Ball Field {Antwerp city} Egg} -exclude {0 3}
	Ball Field Egg

list_find mode list pattern

returns a list of all indices which match a pattern. mode can be -exact, -glob, or -regexp The default mode is -exact
eg.:

	% list_find -regexp {Ape Ball Field {Antwerp city} Egg} {^A}
	0 3

list_cor

gives the positions of the elements in list in the reference list. If an element is not found in the reference list, it returns -1. Elements are matched only once.
eg.:

	% list_cor {a b c d e f} {d b}
	3 1
	% list_cor {a b c d e f} {b d d}
	1 3 -1

list_remdup list

returns a list in which all duplactes are removed with the -sorted option the command will usually be a lot faster, but $list must be sorted with lsort; The optional $var gives the name of a variable in which the removed items will be stored.

list_lremove ?-sorted? list1 list2

returns a list with all items in list1 that are not in list2 with the -sorted option the command will usually be a lot faster, but both given lists must be sorted with lsort; The optional $var gives the name of a variable in which the removed items will be stored.

list_merge ?list1? ?list2? ??spacing??

merges two lists into one
eg.:

	% list_merge {a b c} {1 2 3}
	a 1 b 2 c 3
	% list_merge {a b c d} {1 2} 2
	a b 1 c d 2

list_unmerge ?list? ??spacing?? ??var??

unmerges items from a list to the result; the remaining items are stored in the given variable ?var?
eg.:

	% list_unmerge {a 1 b 2 c 3}
	a b c
	% list_unmerge {a b 1 c d 2} 2 var
	a b c d
	% set var
	1 2

list_reverse list

returns the reverse of the list.

list_change list change to ?change to ...?

change matching elements in a list to other values

list_subindex ?list? ?pos?

returns a list of the 'pos' element in each of the elements of the given list
eg.:

	% list_subindex {{a 1} {b 2} {c 3}} 1
	1 2 3

list_mangle ?list1? ?list2?

mangles two lists into one
eg.:

	% list_mangle {a b c} {1 2 3}
	{a 1} {b 2} {c 3}

list_extract ?list? ?expression?

tries to match each element in a list; if the element matches, it extracts the parenthesised part. It returns a list of all extracted parts. If there was no match, an empty element is put in the list.
eg.:

 
	% list_extract {Results {A: 50%} {B: 25%} {C: 25%}} { ([0-9+]+)\%}
		{} 50 25 25

list_split ?list? -before/-after/-outside ?positions?

splits a list at positions into sublists
eg.:

	% list_split {a b c d e} -before {1 3}
	a {b c} {d e}

list_join ?list? ?join string? ?position list?

joins list elements at positions given in the ?position list?. When you specify all, all elements will be joined.
eg.:

	% list_join {a b c {a d} e} { } {0 2}
		{a b} {c a d} e
	% list_join {a b c {a d} e} {} {0 2}
		ab {ca d} e
	% list_join {a b c {a d} e} {} all
	abca de

list_lengths ?list?

returns a list with the lengths of the elements
eg.:

	% list_lengths {abc abcdef}
	3 6

list_fill ?size? ?start? ??incr??

fills a list of ?size? elements with ?start?; if ?incr? is given and ?size? is an integer, each element in the list will be the former incremented with ?incr?
eg.:

	% list_fill 4 "Hello world"
	{Hello world} {Hello world} {Hello world} {Hello world}
	% list_fill 5 2 2
	2 4 6 8 10
	% list_fill 5 10 -2
	10 8 6 4 2

list_subindex ?list? ?pos?

selects all elements of a list that match a certain pattern. Default mode is -glob
eg.:

	% list_select {a b ab bc} a*
	a ab
	% list_select -regexp {a ab aa bc} {^[ab]*$}
	a ab aa