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> What was that about an improved 'parse for REBOL/View?
>
I noticed that the manual says this about parse for a long time:
The input series argument may be a string or a block, and depending on
which it is, will determine the style of parse that occurs. If it is a
string, it will be parsed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Eric, 5-Jan-2000 you wrote:
>
> [...]
> >I think backtracking is an essential part of regular expressions. To quote
> >from Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl (O'Reilly, p. 102),
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> >The essence of an NFA engine [the regex matching engine of the k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Eric, 7-Jan-2000 you wrote:
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> >Ole, you suggested this to find a word ending in "ing":
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> >>> a: [skip a | "ing"]
> >== [skip a | "ing"]
> >>> parse "ringin" a
> >== false
> >>> parse "ringing" a
> >== true
>
> >That's fine, except it won't detect a word ending
