Hi Alessandro,
Others responded already, so I'll just contribute a general purpose
func to the conversation.
To everyone on the list: How often do you use/need this functionality
(building delimited strings)?
-- Gregg
delimit: func [
"Insert a delimiter between series values."
series [series!] "Series to delimit. Will be modified."
value "The delimiter to insert between items."
/skip ;<-- be sure to use system/words/skip in this func
size [integer!] "The number of items between delimiters. Default is
1."
][
; By default, delimiters go between each item.
; MAX catches zero and negative sizes.
size: max 1 any [size 1]
; If we aren't going to insert any delimiters, just return the series.
; This check means FORSKIP should always give us a series result,
; rather than NONE, so we can safely inline HEAD with it.
if size + 1 > length? series [return series]
; We don't want a delimiter at the beginning.
series: system/words/skip series size
; Use size+n because we're inserting a delimiter on each pass,
; and need to skip over that as well. If we're inserting a
; series into a string, we have to skip the length of that
; series. i.e. the delimiter value is more than a single item
; we need to skip.
size: size + any [
all [list? series 0] ; lists behave differently; no need to skip
dlm.
all [any-string? series series? value length? value]
all [any-string? series length? form value]
1
]
head forskip series size [insert/only series value]
]
; >> make-csv: func [block] [rejoin delimit copy block #","]
; >> make-csv ['name 'rank 'serial-number]
; == "name,rank,serial-number"
;
; >> make-parse-OR: func [block] [delimit copy block '|]
; >> make-parse-OR [yes no maybe]
; == [yes | no | maybe]
;
; >> make-name-val-lines: func [block] [form delimit/skip copy block
newline 2]
; >> print make-name-val-lines ["name:" 'Gregg "rank:" 'private
"serial-number:" #0000]
; name: Gregg
; rank: private
; serial-number: 0000
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