Forum OpenACS Q&A: procedure namespace conflict with standard tcl commands

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1: procedure namespace conflict with standard tcl commands
Posted by Matthew Geddert on 10/13/04 12:55 AM
I think I'm just having an off day, this is probably something simple I've delt with in the past, but that I just forgot. I am creating a new form widget, and in the validate script i need to run the tcl "string match..." command. But since I'm working in the template::data::validate:: namespace openacs assumes i want the template::data::validate::string proc. How do I use the regular tcl string proc within this namespace?
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2: Re: procedure namespace conflict with standard tcl commands (response to 1)
Posted by russ m on 10/13/04 08:11 AM
You can anchor the search by calling it as [::string match ...]

There's probably also an argument to be made for calling [template::data::validate::string ...] as [::template::data::validate::string ...] instead, although noone seems to do that in the current OACS codebase...

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3: Re: procedure namespace conflict with standard tcl commands (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 10/13/04 01:06 PM
Most probably you want
  set x [::string ...]
-gustaf
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4: Re: procedure namespace conflict with standard tcl commands (response to 1)
Posted by Matthew Geddert on 10/14/04 11:06 PM
thanks that does it.