I suspect that you won't be able to use 'parse - or at least as simplified
as the example you gave.
I have a gripe with 'parse also, which I would REALLY like to see changed in
an upcoming release.
When I use the '| operator (for OR), 'parse will search the entire string
for the first pattern then, if this isn't found, it will begin searching for
the second pattern. Although a person may want to do this, I do not. What I
want is to match the first or second pattern, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST in the
search string. Bummer, huh?
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Subject: [REBOL] bug ? Re: parse / space
thx , good point.
but i cannot change the input string to parse.
so if it is a bug can we get a fix, and
how to workaround it ?
it's only a piece of a much longer and still growing dialect .
-- Apparently the 'some is matching the leading/trailing white space:
--
-- Thus, [some symbol] (using 'charset) is matching the entire string,
-- regardless of "breaking" white space. To support this, try:
--
-- >> parse "LIB1 asergd" [lib-type some symbol]
-- == true
