>'thru' and 'to' are part of the parse sub-language, not of the REBOL
>language. That is why they are not in the REBOL dictionary.
I see. I would argue that a dictionary that uses words in a definition
that are not in the dictionary is wrong in doing so.
Brad
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>
>It seems that the 'parse' function in Rebol is quite advance, the
>documentation--at least in the dictionary, suggests great things. This
>example they give is awesome--also pretty much unexplained:
>
>;page: read http://www.rebol.com
>;parse page [thru <title> copy title to </title>]
>;print title
>
>I searched for 'thru' and 'to' which are not in the dictionary. The
>documentation is the biggest handicap to this language's success. The
>funny thing is that title is actually a variable after running this.
>
>I want to write an XML'ish parser. Which is to say that I need to match
>beginning and ends of tags, but I don't know the tag names. i.e.
><item>book</item><name>XML in a nutshell</name> The tags are made up for a
>specific data set, but i don't know what they are in advance. I know they
>begin like this, <???> and end like this </???>
>
>Thanks
>
>Brad
