[REBOL] Re: Perl is to stupid to understand this 1 liner.
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 15-Dec-2001 7:00
Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> >
> >>rebol[]c: charset "0123456789" parse/all f: read %memo.txt[some
> >>[a: 1 2[3 c "-"]4 c b:(change/part a "####" b) | skip]]print f
> >>
> >
> >Very nice! I find it hard to imagine a shorter solution in
> > REBOL.
> >
> eh, I can't read it right now - what does 1 2 [3 c "-"] 4 c
> is doing?
One or two occurrences of (three digits and a hyphen), all
followed by four digits.
It seems to me that there's a nice process of refactoring/refinement
underlying that one:
[c c c "-" c c c c] | [c c c "-" c c c "-" c c c c]
[3 c "-" 4 c] | [3 c "-" 3 c "-" 4 c]
[[3 c "-"] | [3 c "-" 3 c "-"]] 4 c
1 2 [3 c "-"] 4c
-jn-
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