  NAME
    lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element
  SYNOPSIS
    lsearch ?options? list pattern
  DESCRIPTION
    -all
    -ascii
    -decreasing
    -dictionary
    -exact
    -glob
    -increasing
    -index indexList
    -inline
    -integer
    -not
    -real
    -regexp
    -sorted
    -start index
    -subindices
  EXAMPLES
  SEE ALSO
  KEYWORDS

### NAME

lsearch - See if a list contains a particular element

### SYNOPSIS

lsearch ?options? list pattern

### DESCRIPTION

This command searches the elements of list to see if one of them matches pattern. If so, the command returns the index of the first matching element (unless the options -all or -inline are specified.) If not, the command returns -1. The option arguments indicates how the elements of the list are to be matched against pattern and it must have one of the following values:

-all
  Changes the result to be the list of all matching indices (or all matching values if -inline is specified as well.)

-ascii
  The list elements are to be examined as Unicode strings (the name is for backward-compatability reasons.) This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted.

-decreasing
  The list elements are sorted in decreasing order. This option is only meaningful when used with -sorted.

-dictionary
  The list elements are to be compared using dictionary-style comparisons. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted.

-exact
  The list element must contain exactly the same string as pattern.

-glob
  Pattern is a glob-style pattern which is matched against each list element using the same rules as the string match command.

-increasing
  The list elements are sorted in increasing order. This option is only meaningful when used with -sorted.

-index indexList
  This option is designed for use when searching within nested lists. The indexList gives a path of indices (much as might be used with the lsearch command) within each element to allow the location of the term being matched against.

-inline
  The matching value is returned instead of its index (or an empty string if no value matches.) If -all is also specified, then the result of the command is the list of all values that matched.

-integer
  The list elements are to be compared as integers. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted.

-not
  This negates the sense of the match, returning the index of the first non-matching value in the list.

-real
  The list elements are to be compared as floating-point values. This option is only meaningful when used with -exact or -sorted.

-regexp
  Pattern is treated as a regular expression and matched against each list element using the rules described in the re_syntax reference page.

-sorted
  The list elements are in sorted order. If this option is specified, lsearch will use a more efficient searching algorithm to search list. If no other options are specified, list is assumed to be sorted in increasing order, and to contain ASCII strings. This option is mutually exclusive with -glob and -regexp, and is treated exactly like -exact when either -all, or -not is specified.

-start index
  The list is searched starting at position index. If index has the value end, it refers to the last element in the list, and end-integer refers to the last element in the list minus the specified integer offset.

-subindices
  If this option is given, the index result from this command (or every index result when -all is also specified) will be a complete path (suitable for use with lindex or lset) within the overall list to the term found. This option has no effect unless the -index is also specified, and is just a convenience short-cut.

If option is omitted then it defaults to -glob. If more than one of -exact, -glob, -regexp, and -sorted is specified, whichever option is specified last takes precedence. If more than one of -ascii, -dictionary, -integer and -real is specified, the option specified last takes precedence. If more than one of -increasing and -decreasing is specified, the option specified last takes precedence.

### EXAMPLES

    lsearch {a b c d e} c => 2
    lsearch -all {a b c a b c} c => 2 5
    lsearch -inline {a20 b35 c47} b* => b35
    lsearch -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20
    lsearch -all -inline -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => a20 c47
    lsearch -all -not {a20 b35 c47} b* => 0 2
    lsearch -start 3 {a b c a b c} c => 5
    lsearch -index 1 -all {{a abc} {b bcd} {c cde}} *bc* => {a abc} {b bcd}

### SEE ALSO

foreach, list, lappend, lindex, linsert, llength, lset, lsort, lrange, lreplace

### KEYWORDS

list, match, pattern, regular expression, search, string

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