parray - print an array's keys and values

http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/library.htm

'''parray''' ''arrayName''

Print on standard output the names and values of all the elements in the array ''arrayName''. ''ArrayName'' must be an array accessible to the caller of '''parray'''. It may be either local or global.

In fact, it's more like this:

'''parray''' ''arrayName ?pattern?''

Print on standard output the names and values of all the elements in the array ''arrayName'' that match ''pattern''. If ''pattern'' is not specified, then all of the elements of the array are included in the result. If ''pattern'' is specified, then only those elements whose names match ''pattern'' (using the matching rules of [string match]) are included. ''ArrayName'' must be an array accessible to the caller of '''parray'''. It may be either local or global.

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'''parray''' prints an array's keys and values, in key alphabetic order and formatted to the longest key name, to stdout. [RS]

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Sometimes, a developer erroneously tries to do something like this:

 set str [parray env]

or some other array.  parray only produces output to [stdout].  Just
copy /installdir/tcl/lib/tcl8.4/parray.tcl and modify to accumulate
a string rather than calling puts .  Call the proc something else,
though, or you may unintentionally impact some other tool.

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See also:

   * [array]
   * [arrayval]

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