I needed to find the web projects in a specific Visual Studio 2003 solution (.sln) file. Here's how I did it... ### Script to clear Visual Studio's web cache for projects in a given solution file. variable VS2K3VersionString "Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 8.00" # We need the uri package to parse the project URLs package require uri proc find_projects {sln_body} { # Returns a list containing the projects in the solution. Each list item is itself a list: # element 0 is the project name, element 1 is the location for the project variable VS2K3VersionString set projects_out [list] if {[string first $VS2K3VersionString $sln_body] != 0} { error "This doesn't appear to be a VS2003 solution file. I don't know what to do with it." } set sln_body [string range $sln_body [string length $VS2K3VersionString] end] # An arbitrary unicode character used to mark the end of projects so we can split the projects set arbitrary_unicode_char \u9999 set sln_body [string map [list {EndProjectSection} {EndProjectSection} {EndProject} "EndProject${arbitrary_unicode_char}"] $sln_body] # Split the sln_body into projects and drop all the non-project stuff at the end of the .sln # This assumes that projects are always at the beginning of the .sln file. # We also assume that there is non-project stuff in the .sln following the projects - # lrange trims off everything after the last project set projects [lrange [split $sln_body $arbitrary_unicode_char] 0 end-1] foreach p $projects { set p [string trim $p] set temp [string range $p [expr {[string first "=" $p]+1}] end] foreach {name location} [split $temp ","] {break} set name [string trim [string map [list {"} {}] $name]] set location [string trim [string map [list {"} {}] $location]] lappend projects_out [list $name $location] } return $projects_out } proc find_web_projects {sln_body} { # Returns just the web projects in a solution set projects_out [list] set plist [find_projects $sln_body] foreach project $plist { foreach {name location} $project {break} if {[string match "http://*" $location]} { lappend projects_out $project } } return $projects_out } proc clear_web_cache {sln_body cache_dir} { foreach project [find_web_projects $sln_body] { foreach {name url} $project {break} array set url_arr [uri::split $url] if {[string equal "localhost" $url_arr(host)]} { set url_arr(host) [info hostname] } set url_arr(host) [string toupper $url_arr(host)] set path_to_delete [file join $cache_dir $url_arr(host) [file dirname $url_arr(path)]] if {[file exists $path_to_delete] && [file isdirectory $path_to_delete]} { file delete -force $path_to_delete puts "Deleted cache directory $path_to_delete" } } } # Usage sample: clear_web_cache SomeSolution.sln [file join $env(USERPROFILE) VSWebCache]