Tcl's string command in TypeScript

• compare
• equal
• first
• last
• length
• map
• match
• range
• regsub
• repeat
• reverse
• tolower
• toupper
• trim
• trimleft
• trimright

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Upstream Surface Inventory 15/23 shipped • 6 next 65%

Namespace-level inventory for Tcl 8.6: what we already ship, what we may still want, and what we intentionally skip or keep.

string ensemble

Tcl 8.6 · Catalog source: live runtime snapshot python:3.12

71% shipped

15/21 shipped 6 next 2 explicit non-goals 1 intentional extras

string

Shipped (16)

• compare
• equal
• first
• last
• length
• map
• match
• range
• regsub
• repeat
• reverse
• tolower
• toupper
• trim
• trimleft
• trimright

Next

Tcl string subcommands map naturally onto JS string and array values.

• cat
• index
• replace
• totitle
• wordend
• wordstart

Intentional extras

• regsub

Explicit non-goals (2)

• bytelength Skip Byte-length helpers add little value in a UTF-16 JS runtime.
• is Skip Tcl classifier subcommands are too broad and type-system-specific for one clean port.

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