Hi, Colin,
No guru here, JARH...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> But this little example has got me stumped. So I'm interested
> in how the gurus would unDo my approach.
>
Let each rule be an anonymous function, applied to the value
being considered.
>
> ----------------------------------
> ;; rules table
> ;; ===========
> Rules: [
> "(Length? to-string *) > 0" "No data"
> "date? *" "Bad date"
> "(* - 14 ) < now/date" "Too old"
> "specialcheck * " "Not special"
> ]
>
> ;; prepare data field
> ;; ==============
>
> RawValue: "5-122-2001" ;; bad date in this example
> Loadedvalue: ""
> if error? try [loadedValue: first load/all Rawvalue]
> [LoadedValue: RawValue]
>
> ;; apply rules
> ;; ===========
>
> foreach [rule message] Rules [
> if not (do replace/all copy rule "*" mold LoadedValue) [
> print [LoadedValue " fails rule: " Message]
> break
> ] ; if
> ] ; for
> ----------------------------------
>
As follows:
;; "special" check ;-)
;;
specialcheck: func [x] [
random true
]
;; rules table
;; ===========
Rules: reduce [
func [x] [0 < Length? to-string x] "No data"
func [x] [date? x] "Bad date"
func [x] [x - 14 < now/date] "Too old"
func [x] [specialcheck x] "Not special"
]
;; examine data field
;; ==================
testTheField: function [
RawValue [string!]
][
LoadedValue
][
if error? try [
LoadedValue: first load/all RawValue
][
LoadedValue: RawValue
]
;; apply rules
;; ===========
foreach [rule message] Rules [
if not (rule LoadedValue) [
print [LoadedValue " fails rule: " message]
return false
] ; if
] ; for
true
]
which performs as follows:
>> testTheField "5-122-2001"
5-122-2001 fails rule: Bad date
== false
>> testTheField "11-01-2001"
11-Jan-2001 fails rule: Not special
== false
>> testTheField "11-28-2001"
11-28-2001 fails rule: Bad date
== false
>> testTheField "11-01-2001"
11-Jan-2001 fails rule: Not special
== false
>> testTheField "11-28-2001"
11-28-2001 fails rule: Bad date
== false
>> testTheField "11-01-2001"
== true
>>
HTH!
-jn-
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