Thank You all
The docs are so sketchy on parse .
I was hoping for more functionality than is presently
available. I will use the pick and skip route for my string I guess.
Thanks again.
Bill.

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> The problem you are having with the second case is that the TO keyword
> of parse cannot currently be used with a block of optional items to
> parse to the first one that it reaches.  This is an enhancement that
> is planned for parse already.
>
> Sterling
>
> > I've been busting my head for a while now against parse.
> > I've been able to get simple rules to work famously and am able
> > to get a lot of good results,,, but .
> > Could someone please tell me where I'm going wrong here.
> > If I run the following script the first parse is happy
> > the second is not.. I have not been able to figure out what
> > the proper way to do this is and I have spent too long at this.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill.
> >
> > Using REBOL v 2.3.0.3.1
> > REBOL [
> >     Title: "Test"
> >     Author: "Gyrus"
> >     Date: 3/02/2001
> >     Version: 0.1
> >     File: %test.r
> > ]
> >
> > str: {
> > 28/11/00  27.13 28.00 26.81 27.81 +0.93  2668900
> > 27/11/00  26.31 27.63 26.25 26.88 +0.75  4346600
> > 24/11/00  26.56 27.13 25.88 26.13 unch  810500
> > 22/11/00  26.25 26.44 25.88 26.13 -0.12  1757300
> > }
> >
> >
> > digits: charset "0123456789"
> > area-code: ["(" 3 digits ")"]
> > phone-num: [3 digits "-" 4 digits]
> >
> >
> > print parse str [ [area-code | none] phone-num]
> >
> > print parse str [ copy text to [area-code | none] phone-num]
> >
> > wait 10
> >
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