>> probe tab
#"^-"
== #"^-"
page: read/lines %textfile.txt
foreach line page [
line: parse/all line "^-"
]
> I am parsing a number of tab delimited text files.
>
> For reasons unknown this doesn't work:
>
> page: read/lines %textfile.txt
> foreach line page [
> line: parse/all line tab
> ]
>
> Instead, I do this:
>
> parsetab: func [line] [
> replace/all line tab "|"
> line: parse/all line "|"
> ]
>
> foreach line page [
> line: parsetab line
> ]
>
> Why does the first way not work?
>
>
>
