The dump command provides a way for the user to spit out state
information about the interpreter in a Tcl readable (and human
readable) form. It takes the general form:
- dump method
?-nocomplain? ?-filter pattern? ?--? pattern ?pattern
...?
The patterns represent glob-style patterns (as in string match pattern $str). -nocomplain will prevent dump from throwing an error if
no items matched the pattern. -filter is
interpreted as appropriate for the method. The various methods
are:
- dump command args
-
Outputs one or more commands.
- dump procedure args
-
Outputs one or more procs in sourceable form.
- dump variable args
-
Outputs the values of variables in sourceable form. Recognizes
nested arrays. The -filter pattern is used as to filter array
element names and is interepreted as a glob pattern (defaults to
{*}). It is passed down for nested arrays.
- dump widget args
-
Outputs one or more widgets by giving their configuration
options. The -filter pattern is used as to filter the config
options and is interpreted as a case insensitive regexp pattern
(defaults to {.*}).
