Tcl question: expansion of variable names

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 15:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2018, at 08:13, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > Dear Joshua,
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 14:04, Joshua Root wrote:
> >> On 2018-9-4 19:15 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to ask for some help making a little trick work. Here's
> >>> my attempt of a PR:
> >>>    https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/2509/files
> >>>
> >>> Each subport has a different checksum URL:
> >>>    https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download_archive?page=0
> >>>    https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download_archive?page=1
> >>>    https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download_archive?page=2
> >>> etc.
> >>>
> >>> I would like to code this inside a table, but somehow I cannot figure
> >>> out how to properly resolve the variable names when using this hack.
> >>
> >> Wrapping a string in braces disables variable substitution. Use quotes,
> >
> > Thank you, this worked.
> >
> >> or better, the list command, if you want to set geant.versions_info to a
> >> list with substituted variables.
> >
> > This is where I'm not sure where or how to apply the list command. I
> > tried a couple of ways, none of which worked :)
>
> It should be a simple as replacing
>
> set myvar "a b c"
>
> with
>
> set myvar [list a b c]

That works, thank you very much :)

Mojca