Hi, Anton!
I think this does what you want.
>> chopurl: func [s [string!] /local part1 part2 urlchopper] [
[ urlchopper: [
[ [
[ copy part1 to "-" skip copy part2 to "&"
[ |
[ copy part1 to "&" (part2: copy "")
[ ]
[ to end
[ ]
[ parse/all s urlchopper
[ print [mold part1 mold part2]
[ ]
>> chopurl "www.somewhere.com&blah-blah"
"www.somewhere.com" ""
>> chopurl "www.somewhere.com-extrapathbit&blah-blah"
"www.somewhere.com" "extrapathbit"
>>
-jn-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to parse some input like this:
> "www.somewhere.com&blah-blah" OR
> "www.somewhere.com-extrapathbit&blah-blah".
>
> How can I parse up to the hyphen (if it's there) making sure it's before
> the ampersand?
> The ampersand tells me it's the end of the url. So I don't want to parse
> all the way thru "blah".
>
> My two outputs should be, respectively:
> "www.somewhere.com" "" OR
> "www.somewhere.com" "extrapathbit"
>
> Please help!
>
> Anton.
