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jsgibbs1
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Jul 20, 2015

foreach command

I need to parse a data file for a custom string and assign the results to a variable. Each string has a similar prefix and is comma-separated.   Example: custom_string_foo=[get this data w/out th...
Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 20, 2015

The string values don't matter at all. All you care about is that the strings are separated by commas, and that the data you want inside each string is inside square brackets.

set str {test1=[foo],test2=[bar],test3=[blah]}

foreach x [split $str ","] {
    log local0. [findstr $x "\[" 1 "\]"]
}

returns:

foo
bar
blah