catopen is a
Tclx command for opening a
message catalog.
-
- catopen ?-fail|-nofail? catname
Open the message catalog
catname. This may be a relative path name, in which case the
NLSPATH environment variable is searched to find an absolute path to the message catalog. A handle in the form
msgcatN is returned. Normally, errors are ignored, and in the case of a failed call to
catopen, a handle is returned to an unopened message catalog. (This handle may still be passed to
catgets and
catclose, causing
catgets to simply return the default string. If the
-fail option is specified, an error is returned if the open fails. The option
-nofail specifies the default behavior of not returning an error when
catopen fails to open a specified message catalog. If the handle from a failed
catopen is passed to
catgets, the default string is returned.
See also
catgets and
catclose.
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