'thru' and 'to' are part of the parse sub-language, not of the REBOL
language. That is why they are not in the REBOL dictionary.
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Subject: [REBOL] Parsing examples?
It seems that the 'parse' function in Rebol is quite advance, the
documentation--at least in the dictionary, suggests great things. This
example they give is awesome--also pretty much unexplained:
;page: read http://www.rebol.com
;parse page [thru <title> copy title to </title>]
;print title
I searched for 'thru' and 'to' which are not in the dictionary. The
documentation is the biggest handicap to this language's success. The
funny thing is that title is actually a variable after running this.
I want to write an XML'ish parser. Which is to say that I need to match
beginning and ends of tags, but I don't know the tag names. i.e.
<item>book</item><name>XML in a nutshell</name> The tags are made up for a
specific data set, but i don't know what they are in advance. I know they
begin like this, <???> and end like this </???>
Thanks
Brad
