[REBOL] Re: Splitting string based on substring separator
From: fuka:fuxoft:cz at: 22-Dec-2002 1:43
It doesn't help, see my previous post. It's string with binary data.
Andrew Martin wrote:
> Frantisek Fuka wrote:
>
>>Let's say I've got this string
>>
>>"HELLOsepP E O P L EsepHOWsepAREsepYOU"
>>
>>and I want to split it to substrings based on the separator string (in
>
> this case, "sep"). So I want this result:
>
>>["HELLO" "P E O P L E" "HOW" "ARE" "YOU"]
>>
>>I know I can do this using parse and build the resulting block
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> programatically, but isn't there a simpler and cleaner solution? For
> example, if the separator was just one character long, I know I'd just
>
>>write:
>>
>>result: parse/all string-to-parse separator-character
>
> How about this:
>
>>>string-to-parse: "HELLOsepP E O P L EsepHOWsepAREsepYOU"
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> == "HELLOsepP E O P L EsepHOWsepAREsepYOU"
>
>>>replace/all string-to-parse "sep" #"\"
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> == "HELLO\P E O P L E\HOW\ARE\YOU"
>
>>>string-to-parse
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> == "HELLO\P E O P L E\HOW\ARE\YOU"
>
>>>parse/all string-to-parse "\"
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> == ["HELLO" "P E O P L E" "HOW" "ARE" "YOU"]
>
> Of couse this requires using a separator character that isn't used in the
> original string...
>
> I hope that helps!
>
> Andrew Martin
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