v10 class feature

Given the way the class command currently operates, no. If you look carefully, the vipsForA variable is a list with 3 elements. However, the vipsForB variable is a string with two words in it. When you do an llength of it, it treats it as a list, and gives you the correct answer that there are two items there. (I'm being a little fuzzy here, since Tcl doesn't have strictly typed variables)

There's no super elegant way around this. The best way is probably to make your class key names list elements if they have spaces in them. For your example, that would look like:

 
 class myDataGroup { 
 {"{vip1_a 123.4.5.6}"}{} 
 {"{vip2_a 123.4.5.7}"}{} 
 {"{vip3_a 123.4.5.8}"}{} 
 {"{vip1_b 123.4.5.9}"}{} 
 } 
 

Now that I implement this, though, I notice that it is displayed incorrectly in the GUI; I'll file a bug for that shortly. Anyway, this gives you consistent behavior:

 
 set resultA [class names -nocase myDataGroup *_a*] 
 set resultB [class names -nocase myDataGroup *_b*] 
 log local0. "resultA: $resultA  countA: [llength $resultA]" 
 log local0. "resultB: $resultB  countB: [llength $resultB]" 
 

gives:

 
 resultA: {{vip1_a 123.4.5.6}} {{vip2_a 123.4.5.7}} {{vip3_a 123.4.5.8}}  countA: 3 
 resultB: {vip1_b 123.4.5.9}  countB: 1 
 

If you don't want to go that route for whatever reason, then you need to workaround Tcl's "spaces delimit list elements" behavior, and do something like:

 
 set result [class names -nocase myDataGroup *_a*] 
 if { $result contains "{" } { 
   set length [llength $result] 
 } else { 
   set length 1 
 } 
 log local0. "result: $result  length: $length" 
 

Hope this helps.