[REBOL] This has to be a known text-list bug...
From: carl:cybercraft at: 17-Mar-2004 21:25
>=== Original Message >
>Carl Read wrote.. apparently on 17-Mar-2004/16:04:04+13:00
>
>>So how come the first string has had its extra spaces removed?!?
>>(Same result on View 1.2.1, 1.2.5 and 1.2.10.) And is there any
>>known fix for this?
>>
>
>>> layout [t: text-list "a b c" "a b c"]
>>> probe t/data
>["a b c" "a b c"]
>== ["a b c" "a b c"]
>>> layout [t: text-list as-is "a b c" "a b c"]
>>> probe t/data
>["a b c" "a b c"]
>== ["a b c" "a b c"]
Well okay. :)
But does as-is do anything more useful than stop the first entry in a text-list getting
messed with? And is there an as-not to cause them all to have spaces extracted?
In other words, why?
-- Carl Read