[REBOL] Re: Enhancement - parse-[scheme] word
From: al:bri:xtra at: 12-Feb-2001 17:29
Earlier, I wrote:
> What would really, really be nice would be parse-[scheme] words. For
example:
> parse-pop
> parse-http
> parse-finger
> parse-whois
> which can take a URL or string and extract a well-formed scheme from
the string or URL, and return that value. So:
> parse-http S: "http://www.pearl.com?"
> returns:
> http://www.pearl.com
> and leaves the input string at the first character that doesn't fit
the scheme. So that:
> first S
> returns:
> #"?"
All these functions could reside in the scheme objects, one word and it's
function per scheme.
Andrew Martin
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