Popular recipes by Kiko The King http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/772309/2003-11-20T07:58:29-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesGettok (Tcl) 2003-11-20T07:58:29-08:00Kiko The Kinghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/772309/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/252145-gettok/ <p style="color: grey"> Tcl recipe 252145 by <a href="/recipes/users/772309/">Kiko The King</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/datastructures/">datastructures</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>It returns the Xth token in a sentence.. like: i have a sentence divided by : and i want to get the second value sentence: set x "Value 1 : Value 2 : Value 3" [gettok $x 2 :] is returns &lt;b&gt;Value 2&lt;/b&gt; if you use 0 as the number...it will returns the number of tokens in this case... &lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt;</p>