Thank you for this help.
Another question: I understand the difference between "newline" and "crlf"
but...
1. Is "crlf" a replacement for "newline newline" ?
2. Is "crlf" a Windows convention vs. *nix?
3. When should I be concerned to make sure I parse by "crlf" as well as
"newline"?
> Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
>
> On 05-Giu-00, you wrote:
>
> n> end-of-paragraph: rejoin [{.} newline]
>
> n> ;does not work as I desire (i.e. parsing ONLY by instances of
> n> a period followed by a newline character.) Using a charset
>
> When you use PARSE in that way, it splits the string at each
> occurrence of any character in the second string; that is, the
> first string is split each time a #"." is found, and each time a
> newline is found. PARSE will split the string twice if the two
> characters are found in sequence.
>
> Anyway, a working solution is:
>
> breakdown-content: func [
> "breakdown an e-mail content field into its parts"
> msg [object!] "e-mail message"
> ][
> article-info: msg/content
> content-parts: copy []
> parse/all article-info [
> some [copy part thru ".^/" (append content-parts part)]
> ; this is if you need to keep the last paragraph
> ; even if it is not ended by . and newline
> [end | copy part to end (append content-parts part)]
> ]
> ]
>
> Using your example I get:
>
> >> content-parts
> == ["^/^/First paragraph here.^/" "^/Then a second paragraph. Another
> sentence.^/" "^/A final paragraph.^/" "^/"]
>
> If you want to get rid of the newlines, you can use TRIM/LINES,
> changing:
> append content-parts part
> to:
> append content-parts trim/lines part
>
> This way I get:
>
> >> content-parts
> == ["First paragraph here." "Then a second paragraph. Another sentence."
> "A final paragraph." ""]
>
> Regards,
> Gabriele.
> --
> Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer
> Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/
>
