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[REBOL] Re: Proper usage of "thru" in parse

From: edoconnor:gmai:l at: 20-Jul-2006 12:00

The parse keywords to and thru are a bit tricky -- they zoom through the string until they find a match or fail. What you need to do is step through the input one character at a time, testing for a match at each step. In this case, avoid using to and thru -- use skip instead. parse/all text [any [ <normal> copy label to <end> (print label) | <highlight> copy label to <end> (print label) | skip ] to end ] The english statement of the above would be: Go through all of the text, including spaces. Repeat the following rule exhaustively through the text. At each character: 1. if match the tag! value <normal> copy the text until the <end> tag and print it 2. if match the tag! value <highlight> copy the text until the <end> tag and print it 3. no match, so skip to the next character in text string and return to step 1 Go to the end of the text string, which returns "true" to the general parse statement. Be careful about the mistake of surrounding sub-rules for parse in curly braces. They are sub-blocks and need to be enclosed in []. I usually find it best to keep the parse rules as basic as possible, and then refine/condense them if I'm confident they work as intended. My slightly bloated example above could be streamlined to: end-tag: [to <end>] rule: [any [ <normal> copy i end-tag (print i) | <highlight> copy i end-tag (print i) | skip ] to end ]
>> parse/all text rule
item1 item2 item3 item4 == true Regards, Ed On 7/20/06, Mark Chang <mediquip8-yahoo.com> wrote: