Hi Paul,
"first" is not doing anything unusual to what you probably expected. More
likely you didn't realise what parse is doing:
>> hoststring: "rebol.dyndns.org"
== "rebol.dyndns.org"
>> parse hoststring "."
== ["rebol" "dyndns" "org"]
Brett.
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> Very cool. I didnt know you could use first in that manner.
>
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> At 01:33 PM 14/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Try this:
> >> hoststring: "rebol.dyndns.org"
> == "rebol.dyndns.org"
> >> first parse hoststring "."
> == "rebol"
> >>
> >How do you parse a hostname only to return the first portion. For
example:
> >
> > hoststring: rebol.dyndns.org
> >
> >I would only want to return the portion up to the first "." which would
be
> >"rebol" in this case.
> >
> >Paul Tretter
>
> Mike Yaunish
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