Assign successive elements of a list to specified variables

Synopsis

• lassign list var ?var...?

Description

Assign successive elements of a list to specified variables. If there are more variable names than fields, the remaining variables are set to the empty string. If there are more elements than variables, a list of the unassigned elements is returned.

For example,

lassign {dave 100 200 {Dave Foo}} name uid gid longName

Assigns name to "dave", uid to "100", gid to "200", and longName to "Dave Foo".