Alternate implementation of TCL's keyed list which does not have to be compiled ?

Question

Hi,

I need to use keyed lists with TCL, but have the option of only copying tcl code to the device.

The default method is to use TclX, but this requires compilation.

Is there any implementation of keyed list functions (keylset, keylget) which is available as a "standalone" library (i.e. pure tcl)?

Answer 1

yes, in tcl 8.5, the dict command was added which implements a dictionary store, for example:

dict set d key1 val1
dict set d key2 val2

dict for {k v} $d {puts "$k = $v"}

Answer 2

Found the solution at the end of this wiki page itself !

Answer 3

If you take a look at this wiki page regarding keyed lists, where someone has written a pure tcl version of basic keyed list functionality. I didn't read in depth to see if they depended on dict or not. If so, there is a pure tcl implemention of dict elsewhere on the wiki.