Here's another answer, Keith.
>> text: "is now."
== "is now."
>> insert insert text "The " "time " print head text
The time is now.
>>
This shows that when you use as the first argument for insert the return
from a preceding insert operation, it works as one would expect from the
dictionary.
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:56 PM
Subject: [REBOL] question about insert Re:
> Hi Keith,
>
> there are two fucntions, insert and append. You quote from the dictionary,
> I cant' access it right now, but I think it should say something similar
to
> what REBOL reports when request help for insert:
>
> Inserts a value into a series and returns the series after the insert.
> Arguments:
> series -- Series at point to insert (series port bitset)
> [snip]
>
> The important notion here series -- Series at point to insert.
>
> When you insert into the head of the series
> >text: "is now"
> >insert text "the "
>
> then the inserted string will indeed be at the head of the string, because
> that is the point of insertion.
>
> You can insert at the end of the string using insert:
>
> insert tail text " the"
>
> or you can use append, which in turn uses tail on your behalf:
>
> >> source append
> append: func [
> {Appends a value to the tail of a series and returns the series head.}
> series [series! port!]
> value
> /only {Appends a block value into a block series as a block}
> ][
> head either only [insert/only tail series :value
> ] [
> insert tail series :value
> ]
> ]
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Elan
>
> At 05:52 PM 12/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi, I'm not sure if insert works how it's supposed to.
> >
> >This is from the dictionary:
> >
> >If the value is a series compatible with the first (block or string-based
> >datatype), then all of its values will be inserted. The series position
just
> >past the insert is returned, allowing multiple inserts to be cascaded
> >together.
> >
> >I would think that if I said:
> >
> >text: "is now"
> >insert text "the "
> >insert text "time "
> >text: head text
> >
> >I should get "the time is now" but I get "time the is now"
> >
> >Shouldn't it insert the "the " at the beginning, but then leave me "just
> >past the insert" so that if I say insert again it inserts it after the
"the
> >"? This is what I would think it meant by cascading inserts together. If
you
> >say:
> >
> >duh: ""
> >insert duh "The "
> >insert duh "time "
> >insert duh "is "
> >insert duh "now. "
> >duh: head duh
> >
> >I would expect to get "The time is now.", but I get "now. is time The ".
> >
> >What do you think?
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >
> >
>
>
