Seems that it already understands quoted strings to some degree...
>> a: [aa [aaa 1 bbb 2] "bb" [ccc 1 ddd 2] ]
== [aa [aaa 1 bbb 2] "bb" [ccc 1 ddd 2]]
>> p: to-path [a "bb"]
== a/"bb"
>> p
== [ccc 1 ddd 2]
--Ryan
Andrew Martin wrote:
> Normal path! datatypes look like this:
> word/sub-word/sub-sub-word
> Currently Rebol doesn't understand strings in a path. I'm proposing that
> Rebol should return things using a string as a path. For example:
>
> block: [
> "A string with spaces" [
> Test [
> Item 99
> ]
> ]
> ]
>
> To refer to "99" it would be nice if Rebol understood the following as a
> path:
> block/"A string with spaces"/Test/Item
> and for convenience the following format:
> /"block/A string with spaces/Test/Item"
> Both of the above will return "99. The last format is based on Rebol's
> format for long filenames with embedded spaces, like:
> %"Directory/Sub-Directory/My File.txt"
>
> Opinions? Problems?
>
> Andrew Martin
> ICQ: 26227169 http://members.nbci.com/AndrewMartin/
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