That works great, but how about finding more than one
word in the string...eg. cat: ["fat cat" "furry
feline"]
Thanks in advance
TBrownell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's an approach.
>
> >> cat: ["cat" "feline" "kitty" "lion"]
> == ["cat" "feline" "kitty" "lion"]
> >> fact: "I have a kitty"
> == "I have a kitty"
> >> foreach wrd parse fact none [if found? find cat
> wrd [prin "found " print
> wrd]]
> found kitty
> >>
> This is a bit simplified. If
>
> >> fact: "My kitty cat ate a mouse."
> == "My kitty cat ate a mouse."
> >> foreach wrd parse fact none [if found? find cat
> wrd [prin "found " print
> wrd]]
> found kitty
> found cat
> == false
> >>
> The == false is the result of words after the search
> words. Perhaps, in
> place of 'if, 'either could be used with [] for the
> "else" action block.
> Yeah! That works!
> Also if fact: "I have a kitty." it fails because the
> simple parse generates
> ["I" "have" "a" "kitty."]
> Parse needs to be modified to dump the period.
>
>
> Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:46 PM
> Subject: [REBOL] Newbie question #2 - Pattern making
> and using? Re:
>
>
> > Hi T Brownell
> >
> > you wrote:
> > >x: none
> > >cat: "feline"
> > >cat: "kitty"
> > >fact: "I have a kitty"
> > >if found? find fact cat [x: "found it"]
> > >if found? x [print x]
> > >unset 'x
> >
> > A few remarks:
> >
> > >x: none
> > this line is not necessary. But it's not a bad
> idea.
> >
> > >cat: "feline"
> > >cat: "kitty"
> >
> > Now cat evaluates to "kitty" only! cat no longer
> evaluates to "feline"! If
> > you try this code against fact: "I have a feline"
> find will fail!
> >
> > Given:
> > >cat: "feline"
> > >cat: "kitty"
> > >fact: "I have a kitty"
> >
> > you could say:
> > if found? find fact cat [print x: "found it"]
> >
> > >How can i make the 2 values of cat: into a
> pattern
> > >that can be used in this script? Also, the rest
> of
> > >this script stinks... THERE MUST BE A BETTER
> WAY!!!
> >
> >
>
>
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