Re: [ns] Tcl query!

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

set xys [abc]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ishan Mandrekar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've a procedure which returns a value, defined as follows:
> 
> proc abc {} {
> .....
>  if {...} {
>     return 1
>  } else {
>     return 0
>  }
> }
> 
> Now... proc abc is called inside another procedure xyz as follows:
> 
> proc xyz {} {
> global abc
> .....
> set flag abc
> }
> 
> I would like the variable flag to get the value returned by procedure abc,
> instead Tcl takes abc as a string and assigns it to flag.
> 
> Hence if I do a puts $flag after the set statement, the value printed is
> "abc" and not 0 (or) 1.
> 
> In such a case what is the correct way to initiate a procedure call?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ishan. 
> 
>