Hi, Carl, Terry, and all
A slightly more generic version...
Carl Read wrote:
>
> On 09-Mar-02, Terry Brownell wrote:
>
> > When parsing a string such as {Hello world, "this to" is an
> > example;} parse will remove the comma, and the semi... and takes
> > anything within quotes as a single value.
>
> > Sometimes I just want to parse spaces so we get...
> > ["Hello" "world," "this" "to" "is" "an" "example;"]
>
...
>
> Well, the 'all refinement let's you parse everything except what you
> tell it not to parse. ie...
>
...
>
> Though your "this to" becomes one string instead of two. Close to
> what you want though, and stripping out the speach-marks first would
> be one option. ie...
>
just-the-good-parts: func [
s [string!]
/local result good-ones others fragment
][
good-ones: charset [#"A" - #"Z" #"a" - #"z" #"." #"," #";"]
others: complement good-ones
result: copy []
parse/all s [
any [
copy fragment some good-ones (append result fragment)
|
some others
]
]
result
]
>> a: {Hello world, "this to" is an example;}
== {Hello world, "this to" is an example;}
>> just-the-good-parts a
== ["Hello" "world," "this" "to" "is" "an" "example;"]
Suitable redefinitions of GOOD-ONES and OTHERS will let you keep or
discard whatever characters you wish, of course.
-jn-
--
; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]}
REBOL []
# despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"]
; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"}
print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;
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