[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im fooling around with rebel/core and find the documentation skips
> around a little to much for a bonehead like myself:
>
> I want to try a simple procedure: open a file, find a text marker in
> that file, and replace the marker with text from a standing file.
->> help replace
Replaces the search value with the replace value within the target series.
Arguments:
target -- Series that is being modified. (series)
search -- Value to be replaced.
replace -- Value to replace with.
Refinements:
/all -- Replace all occurrences.
->>
> As I see it I need to open the file and make it a series so that I can
> perform the remove and insert. Is this so?
>
I am not sure you will not have to read the file, perform replacing and
write that file back to disk ....
>
> I also want to strip out html comments. I thought I could access those
> comments using the find/any specifying comments as "<!--*-->" but I
> dont seem to have any luck.
once again - use replace ....
or parse ...
parse string [any [thru "<--" copy result to "-->" (print result)]]
-pekr-
>
> Could some kind soul please point me in the right direction.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
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