> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Parsing tab delimited text files > > > 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 > ] > Your problem is that tab is a character, i.e.: >> print type? tab char The parse function is looking for a string, so just give it the tab as a string value: page: read/lines %textfile.txt foreach line page [ line: parse/all line "^-" ] and it will work like the true champ that REBOL is. Enjoy. --Ralph Roberts
