Comments on: PARSE: CHANGE added

For A85, the CHANGE command has been added to the parse dialect.

Syntax is:

change rule |only| value

Where only is an optional word to treat the value as a single value (same as /only in the change action.)

Examples:

>> parse d: "abc" [change "ab" "xy"]
>> d
== "xyc"
>> parse d: "abc" [change skip 123]
>> d
== "123bc"
>> parse d: [a b c] [change 'a [x y z]]
>> d
== [x y z b c]
>> parse d: [a b c] [change 'a only [x y z]]
>> d
== [[x y z] b c]

It is likely that bugs may exist. We will take a sweep over all parse bugs in the next release, once we've agreed on the primary design of these enhancements.

Also: you should know that this change may affect change, insert, and append for all series! datatypes. This is due to a merge between the datatype and parse modification functions.

6 Comments

Comments:

-pekr- 1-Oct-2009 3:20:23	With new additions, and maybe it is only me, I have some problems with some of examples, simply put - are some operations pre, or post based? E.g. your second example: >> parse d: "abc" [change skip 123] >> d == "123bc" I expected different result at first sight. I don't know why - maybe because I am used to left-2-right REBOL level evaluation? Hence I first expected SKIP, then change to be applied. I know I should follow definition of keywords, and it states clearly enough, that CHANGE applies against matched rule, and SKIP just matches single char, but anyway :-) Above results are of course correct, but I just wonder, if "expectability" could cause any confusion for some users?
DideC 1-Oct-2009 4:30:53	Agreed with Pekr. I expected "a123c" at first read ('skip, then 'change).
Henrik 1-Oct-2009 5:19:32	I agree with Pekr and DideC. Also need example for: parse d: "abc" [change "abc" "xy"] Essentially, if the rule is longer than the replacement. Where is the index after this?: parse d: "abc" [change skip 123]
-pekr- 1-Oct-2009 6:04:24	Henrik, you might find new ?? function usefull: >> parse d: "abc" [change skip 123 ??] end!: "bc" == false ... so - the index is right after the 'change applied?
Henrik 1-Oct-2009 6:11:03	Pekr, I didn't notice that A85 had been released. Thanks.
Steeve 1-Oct-2009 8:49:13	Guys, you didn't follow the previous note on INSERT. Did you ? CHANGE "eat" the following rule. More obvious with that example: >> parse s: "abc" [change "a" "123"] s == "123bc" CHANGE is a shortcut for REMOVE then INSERT >> parse "abc" [change skip "123"] same as: >> parse "abc" [remove skip insert "123"]

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