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The fragility of pancakes - and better structures
Have you ever hunted around a directory for a file ... you KNOW it's there, but you can't find it - can't see the wood for the trees, if you like, in a listing that spills over many pages? I call such directory structures "pancakes" as they're thin and flat, and they tend not to be very easy to work with as they grow and grow. It's usually best to avoid a pancake if you can - either set up a directory structure if you require ad-hoc access to all the various different data pieces, or use a database such as MySQL to hold the data ... this is the technique we're using for images in our database, as described in the current edition of "Of Course". The Authors of Tcl had an issue with a pancake of commands that could have been provided in the language, so that came us with a hierarchy of commands and subcommands. Within a top level around a hundred top level commands, you'll find commands that have subcommand in particular areas such as string - most commands to do with string handling file - most commands to do with file handling array - all commands to do with array handling clock - all commands to do with time handling info - commands that provide information (written 2006-06-26, updated 2006-06-30) Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles T209 - Tcl/Tk - File and Directory Handling[785] Running external processes in Tcl and Tcl/Tk - (2006-06-29) [1407] Reading from another process in Tcl (pipes and sockets) - (2007-10-26) [1426] Buffering up in Tcl - the empty coke can comparison - (2007-11-10) [1467] stdout v stderr (Tcl, Perl, Shell) - (2007-12-10) [2467] Tcl - catching an error before your program crashes - (2009-10-22) [3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats - (2011-03-04) [3320] Reading the nth line from a file (Perl and Tcl examples) - (2011-06-09) [3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl - (2011-09-09) [3617] The fileutil package and a list of file system commands in Tcl - (2012-02-18) [4461] Reading from a URL, and reading Json, from your Tcl script - (2015-03-12) [4523] Catching failed commands and not crashing the program in Tcl - (2015-10-10) [4524] Tcl - a new example for data reformatting - (2015-10-10) T208 - Tcl/Tk - Arrays and dicts [122] Passing arrays to procs in Tcl - (2004-11-18) [1282] Stringing together Tcl scripts - (2007-07-29) [1283] Generating traffic for network testing - (2007-07-29) [1405] Sorting in Tcl - lists and arrays - (2007-10-24) [1427] Arrays in Tcl - a demonstration - (2007-11-10) [1614] When an array is not an array - (2008-04-17) [2466] Tcl - passing arrays and strings in and back out of procs - (2009-10-22) [3415] User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk - (2011-09-02) [3582] Tcl collections - lists, dicts and array - (2012-01-16) [3614] Tcl - dicts - a tutorial and examples - (2012-02-14) [3638] Sorting dicts and arrays in Tcl - (2012-03-04) T205 - Tcl/Tk - String Handling in Tcl [404] How to check that a string contains a number in Tcl - (2005-08-06) [943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions - (2006-11-25) [1403] Square Bracket protection in Tcl - (2007-10-23) [1410] Tcl / regsub - changing a string and using interesting bits - (2007-10-27) [1601] Replacing the last comma with an and - (2008-04-04) [2472] split and join in tcl and expect - (2009-10-23) [3285] Extracting data from a string / line from file - Tcl - (2011-05-10) [3576] Tcl - apparently odd behaviour of string trimleft - (2012-01-13) [4205] Regular Expression Substitution - Tcl - (2013-11-12) [4454] Everything is a string - even a list - (2015-03-11) [4455] Working out distance between places, using OS grid references and a program in Tcl - (2015-03-11)
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Good follow up ... my thanksConverting between Hex and Decimal in Tcl Tcl - lappend v concat Separation and Integration The fragility of pancakes - and better structures Weekend in Ireland On Crosby sands Naming Rooms Do not duplicate your code Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel? |
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