As others have pointed out:
>> st: "Hokey Pokey"
== "Hokey Pokey"
>> st: insert st "Do "
== "Hokey Pokey"
>> st: insert st "The "
== "Hokey Pokey"
>> head st
== "Do The Hokey Pokey"
>>
This is so simple, it hardly seems worth using a function for it.
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [REBOL] question about insert Re:(2)
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> The only questions I have left are:
>
> Why does the original series still point to the beginning of what you
> inserted? Because of this there is no way to do two inserts separately and
> have the second insert appear after the first in the series. I guess this
> makes sense. It sort of pushes what you inserted forward in the series and
> leaves you where you were.
>
> The other question I have is... because of this behavior, is there any way
> to do an insert after another insert and have what you inserted second
come
> out after what you inserted first? Is there any way to say:
>
> h: "pokey"
> insertafter h "the "
> insertafter h "hokey "
>
> and have h be "the hokey pokey"
>
> in other words, is there any function that will leave the cursor for the
> series after what you inserted?
>
> Or, to put it yet another way, is there any way to sort of "append" at
> anywhere but the end of the series and then leave the cursor at the end of
> what it appended? This is sort of what I've been trying to accomplish: an
> append in the middle of the series.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their help.
>
> Keith
>
