Ralph, Must be something else in your program.. I can't seem to reproduce the behavior here. Try creating a trivial program, restart REBOL, if it still does it, submit the example here. Also, I presume you mean 'copy price to end. Russ ------------------------------------- At 01:47 PM 10/22/99 -0400, you wrote: >that, of course should be: > >parse line [thru "^-" copy price"] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 12:37 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [REBOL] tabs -- something basic or a bug? >> >> >> This could be a basic misunderstanding on my part, but it's driving me >> crazy... >> >> simple operation: >> >> I read in a text file into a variable using read/lines. At the end of each >> line is a tab and a price. >> >> I want to strip out the prices and save to a variable. >> >> Easy enough, one would think. First get the line by pick. Then parse the >> line with the statement: >> >> parse line [thru "^" copy price] >> >> works quite nicely THE FIRST TIME but then I find that ALL the >> tabs are gone >> not just from the line but the variable containing all the lines read in >> from the text file. >> >> Is this like a bug or do I need to do something to preseve my tabs until >> each line is processed? >> >> --Ralph >> > > > >
