Richard Suchenwirth 2002-05-13: Reading "An Overview of the Icon programming language" [L1 ], their final example of a concordance (index of words, with linenumber where it occurred) challenged me to redo it in Tcl. Easily done, of course - now to see how Icon features might be borrowed for Tcl...
set test { On the Future!-how it tells Of the rapture that impells To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells- Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells- To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! } proc concordance {text} { set n 0 foreach line [split $text \n] { if {$line==""} continue regsub -all {[^a-z]} [string tolower $line] " " line2 incr n foreach word $line2 { if [string length $word]>=3 {lappend A($word) $n} } puts [format "%10d %s" $n $line] } puts "" foreach word [lsort [array names A]] { puts [format "%-15s %s" $word [join [luniq $A($word)] ", "]] } } proc luniq list { set res {} foreach i $list { if {[lsearch $res $i]<0} {lappend res $i} } set res } concordance $test
1 On the Future!-how it tells 2 Of the rapture that impells 3 To the swinging and the ringing 4 Of the bells, bells, bells- 5 Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, 6 Bells, bells, bells- 7 To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! and 3, 7 bells 4, 5, 6, 7 chiming 7 future 1 how 1 impells 2 rapture 2 rhyming 7 ringing 3 swinging 3 tells 1 that 2 the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7