World: r3wp

I guess this is where the fabled find/deep would come in.

lol deep in a 1 level block :P

just checked R3.. doesnt work there either :(

I know :-) I guess you have to wonder what result you want back, 
because it has to search each string in the block. what you are looking 
for is a find on each string in the block and what if that is not 
found in the beginning? Does it return two indexes, one for the string 
and one for the block? That's where /deep comes in.

first find -  returns succesful index

as normal find works

yeah, but find doesn't know that

perhaps it's simpler to parse the string

too slow with 50,000+ words and pattern matching?

ill probably just use C# and use regex :)

deep-find: func [blk str] [repeat i length? blk [all [find/any blk/:i 
str break/return at blk i]]]

could probably be sped up with while or until

or by length matching wildcard pattern

because once i use the full 300,000+ word dictionary its gonna need 
to be fast :)

it helps if you are searching a hash

wildcard searching a hash is rather messy tho isnt it?

I've not tried it, but find should be much faster in hashes.

are you always searching from the beginning of the string?

no

eg "?ex??w*a"

hmm

think crossword matching

but without defined lengths

then it wouldn't help to divide the dictionary in sections by first 
letter

only safe exclusions would be minimum desired length

eg if someone does "*was" you can remove everything 2 letters or 
less

but that seems to be the limit of preprocessing the list

I use similar code in LIST-VIEW and it searches about 30000 words 
in 0.1-0.2 seconds. It does no t use expression matching, though.

and it also gets all results

rather than just the first one

ive got some old code i did a few years ago in C# that uses regex 
to do it but I was just curious if rebol could do it in a timely 
manner

parse should probably not be ruled out. it's very fast.

im testing parse at the moment - ill test it on R2/R3 and see how 
it rates

this by ladislav was interesting http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/PARSE-Versus-Regexs

http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/library/string-search-functions.r

http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/library/demo-string-search-functions.r

(They don't do wildcard searching, though could be modified I suppose...)

Is there any windows setting, or anything else, which results in 
'now not providing the timezone?

I've got an encapped application which is failing, and it can only 
be failing if there is no timezone in the 'now data.

yes... jeruzalem time-zone:)

very interesting

it should be +2:00 but I have no timezone in rebol

why?

also you have to restart rebol to get changed timezone setting updated

>> now
== 2-Sep-2008/22:23:12+12:00

ech.. no... now it's correct

what happens for you?

so I'm not sure

I'm changing timezones in settings and check 'now in Rebol... I got 
it without timezone once

oh .. bug then.

>> now
== 2-Sep-2008/12:21:27