The Tcl library provides a useful array of functions for the manipulation of lists. Here's a snippet to show how to obtain sub-string from a string argument.

Here's the line of Tcl script that needs to be parsed.


Clearly a call to sscanf is not much use because it will break down the font name into two elements: "{Andika" and "Basic}". Better use the Tcl library function Tcl_ListObjIndex which enables list elements to be pulled out for further processing.

The following snippet is taken from the print.c module: