[REBOL] Re: Exclude Problems
From: learned:talentsinc at: 27-Sep-2001 14:45
That seems to work only if block 2 has only one item in it. I need to play
with it some more I think.
--On Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:25 PM -0700 Ammon Cooke
<[ammoncooke--yahoo--com]> wrote:
> Here:
>
> excl-only: func [
> "This is the Exclude function that doesn't exclude duplicates"
> block1 "The original block"
> block2 "The block to be 'excluded'"
> ][
> tmp-block: [none]
> tmp-block: remove find copy block1 copy block2
> either not none? tmp-block[
> return head tmp-block
> ][
> return tmp-block
> ]
> ]
>
> HTH!
> Ammon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G. Edw. Learned" <[learned--talentsinc--net]>
> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:12 AM
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Exclude Problems
>
>> Argh, I just tested and yes, that's it exactly. I didn't see that little
>> "feature" documented in the dictionary at the REBOL site. Thanks. Is
>> there a better source of documentation that I should get other than the
>> online word dictionary?
>>
>> On the bad side, it just made exclude totally useless for my project. I
>> don't suppose that remove duplicate is an optional feature? Guess I'm
>> back to remove.
>>
>> --On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:23 PM +1000 Allen Kamp
>> <[allenk--powerup--com--au]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "G. Edw. Learned" <[learned--talentsinc--net]>
>> > To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 8:08 AM
>> > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Exclude Problems
>> >
>> >
>> >> I thought that too, which is why I reduced it down to excluding just
> one
>> >> item, SYSTEM, and it still took out words like SEAGATE and strings
>> >> like "----". Is a puzzlement.
>> >
>> > Exclude also cleans up duplicate entries, such as.
>> >>> exclude ["AA" "B" "C" "D" "E" "AA" "F" "G" "AA" "B" "AA" "B"] ["C"
> "F"]
>> > == ["AA" "B" "D" "E" "G"]
>> >
>> > Could that explain what you are seeing?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Allen K
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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