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246.TH gets n 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
247.BS
248'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
249.SH NAME
250gets \- Read a line from a channel
251.SH SYNOPSIS
252\fBgets \fIchannelId\fR ?\fIvarName\fR?
253.BE
254
255.SH DESCRIPTION
256.PP
257This command reads the next line from \fIchannelId\fR, returns everything
258in the line up to (but not including) the end-of-line character(s), and
259discards the end-of-line character(s).
260.PP
261.VS
262\fIChannelId\fR must be an identifier for an open channel such as the
263Tcl standard input channel (\fBstdin\fR), the return value from an
264invocation of \fBopen\fR or \fBsocket\fR, or the result of a channel
265creation command provided by a Tcl extension. The channel must have
266been opened for input.
267.VE
268.PP
269If \fIvarName\fR is omitted the line is returned as the result of the
270command.
271If \fIvarName\fR is specified then the line is placed in the variable by
272that name and the return value is a count of the number of characters
273returned.
274.PP
275If end of file occurs while scanning for an end of
276line, the command returns whatever input is available up to the end of file.
277If \fIchannelId\fR is in nonblocking mode and there is not a full
278line of input available, the command returns an empty string and
279does not consume any input.
280If \fIvarName\fR is specified and an empty string is returned in
281\fIvarName\fR because of end-of-file or because of insufficient
282data in nonblocking mode, then the return count is -1.
283Note that if \fIvarName\fR is not specified then the end-of-file
284and no-full-line-available cases can
285produce the same results as if there were an input line consisting
286only of the end-of-line character(s).
287The \fBeof\fR and \fBfblocked\fR commands can be used to distinguish
288these three cases.
289.SH "EXAMPLE"
290This example reads a file one line at a time and prints it out with
291the current line number attached to the start of each line.
292.PP
293.CS
294set chan [open "some.file.txt"]
295set lineNumber 0
296while {[\fBgets\fR $chan line] >= 0} {
297 puts "[incr lineNumber]: $line"
298}
299close $chan
300.CE
301
302.SH "SEE ALSO"
303file(n), eof(n), fblocked(n), Tcl_StandardChannels(3)
304
305.SH KEYWORDS
306blocking, channel, end of file, end of line, line, nonblocking, read