[REBOL] Extracting a date..
From: peoyli::algonet::se at: 12-May-2001 13:53
Hi,
I have tried to extract a date in a format (currently) not supported by REBOL,
without any great success..
The part of the file I want to read from looks like:
fdata: {
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some other text here
May 11 2001
Some other text here
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
}
which should be very easy to parse.. (from some other alike answer I found in
the list):
Setting up a rule for the date format:
digit: charset [#"0" - #"9"]
mon-abbrev: ["jan" | "feb" | "mar" | "apr" | "may" | "jun" |
"jul" | "aug" | "sep" | "oct" | "nov" | "dec"]
date-rule: [mon-abbrev some #" " 1 2 digit some #" " 4 digit]
then.. the problem begins..
>> date: copy "" parse fdata [to date-rule copy date to "^/" to end] print date
** Script Error: Invalid argument: mon-abbrev some 1 2 digit some 4 digit
** Near: parse fdata [to date-rule copy date to "^/" to end]
>> date: copy "" parse fdata [to "may" copy date to "^/" to end] print date
May 11 2001
>> date: copy "" parse fdata [[to "may" | "jun"] copy date to "^/" to end] print date
May 11 2001
>> date: copy "" parse fdata [[to "apr" | "may" | "jun"] copy date to "^/" to end] print
date
(nothing)
...
What should I change to make this work ? The first try which returned the script
error seems to be the most logical one...
/PeO
