[REBOL] Re: can't quite get it right...
From: carl:cybercraft at: 31-Dec-2002 20:15
On 31-Dec-02, Carl Read wrote:
> On 30-Dec-02, Andrew Martin wrote:
>> Hallvard wrote:
>>> could this be trimmed further?
>> Yes. I think it would be best as a native that exposed the
>> operating system's equivalent of 'Uppercase? (and 'Lowercase? as
>> well) for maximum portability and speed.
> Thinking about this, I was wondering if it'd make sense to add a
> compare refinement (as with sort) to *all* and *any*. We could then
> do the likes of this...
> all/compare "ABC" func [v][all [char? v v >= ##"A" v <= ##"Z"]]
Should be this...
all/compare "ABC" func [v][all [char? v v >= #"A" v <= #"Z"]]
of course. Odd behaviour from mailer with cutting and pasting... (:
> That'd check that all values in a series were uppercase, while the
> following would check for any numbers in a block...
> any/compare ["a" 1 "b" 2] func [v][number? v]
> and so on. (*all* and *any* currently only work on blocks, but with
> compare could be extended to series.)
> Or is there a word in REBOL that already allows us to do this?
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Carl Read
