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[REBOL] Re: parse, again...

From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 6-Nov-2001 4:02

RE: [REBOL] Re: parse, again... Hi Robert [robert--muench--robertmuench--de] wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]On Behalf Of > > [nitsch-lists--netcologne--de] > > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 1:14 AM > > To: [rebol-list--rebol--com] > > Subject: [REBOL] Re: parse, again... > > > difference is > > >> parse "hello" [to end skip] > > == false > > [to end skip] will stop, but gives false. > > Hi, I just jump in maybe I miss the point but 'to end' goes beyond the last > character and a following 'skip' tries to go even beyond this virtual end-tag. > Of course parse returns false. > > > >> parse "hello" [skip to end] > > == true> our "workarounds" gives true but are not so obvious. > > I think this is very obvious, this tells parse to 'skip to end' that's skip > beyond the last consumable character. > > > i would like to get "stop" and "true", and somehow, > > [thru end] would make sense to me (its what one thinks of first?) > > If we define 'end as the position behind the last consumable character it > doesn't make sense to go thru the end. It's OK to go/skip to the end. Robert >
thread started like parse "this that something some others"[some[thru "something"|thru end]] this was the way the thread-starter used it intuitively, and wondered why 'parse said "not successfully parsed" i replied untested parse "this that something some others"[some[thru "something"|to end]] but oops, this gives an infinite loop. then solution was to make the [to end] part smarter with [some skip] (Ladislav) or [skip to end] (me). but because [thru "something"] means "all including this is parsed", [thru end] could well mean "all including end is parsed" IMHO. i would like it. -Volker