What is the difference between string "match" and string "equal" in TCL

Question

In TCL what is the difference between string "match" and string "equal". They are almost same so I am not able to detect the difference between them.

Answer 1

string equal compares two strings character by character and returns 1 if they both contain the same characters (case sensitive: can be overridden).

string match compares a string against a glob-style pattern and returns 1 if the string matches the pattern.

In a degenerate case, a string match with only non-special characters in the pattern is equivalent to a string equal.

Documentation: string

Syntax of Tcl string matching:

• * matches a sequence of zero or more characters
• ? matches a single character
• [chars] matches a single character in the set given by chars (^ does not negate; a range can be given as a-z)
• \x matches the character x, even if that character is special (one of *?[]\)

Answer 2

already answered in TCL string match vs regexps Regexp are slower than base function. So you should avoid regex for equal check