World: r3wp

I made progress with my simple actors library few weeks back  but 
I still ahvent found time to make a blogpost about it.. it works 
nicely without something like yield and probably even has few advantages, 
but I am interested if somehow this can be made on top of rebol too

R3 will have multitasking. For R2 you need to write your own interpreter, 
or switch the semantics (actors), or multiprocess.

I will never remember the trick: How can I get an output of 12.30 
instead of 12.3?

BrianH, R3 discussions should go in the Rebol3 group.

(The hypocrisy).

Robert, do you mean using money datatype?

>> $12.3
== $12.30

or maybe something like

>> append mold 12.3 "0"
== "12.30"

ah, I forget about money! in R2... thx.

Next one: I need to construct a HREF="..." with some dynamic code.

compose [<a href="/rest-cart/ordet/ (to-string session/id) "> "Bezahlen" 
</a>]

Of course this doesn't work. But converting the TAG to strings and 
than combining it all didn't work too.

And why this:

>> rejoin [<a href="test"> "Test" </a>]
== <a href="test"Test</a>>

This works but is ugly:

>> rejoin [<a href="test"> "Test" </a>]
== <a href="test"Test</a>>

sorry, I mean this:
>> to-tag rejoin [{a href="test">} "Test" "</a"]
 
== <a href="test">Test</a>

Robert, what about BUILD-TAG?

;) He, he... to may functions to remember. Yep I think this works 
too and looks better.

Money: And way to get rid of the $ sign? I need Û at the end.

second $3.4
== 3.4

Without REMOVE etc.

Ah, cool. Didn't know this. Always something new after so many years...

Just tried it with R3-alpha ..... It does  not work.
I'll report it in Curecode.

Good, at least it helped to catch a bug.

:-)
  to-decimal $3.4

works in R3 but not R2.....So it may be a change of behavior, not 
a bug. Look out for reponse to curecode #807

But does it give the trailing 0 in R3?

Does not look like it:
    >> to-decimal $3.4
    == 3.4

Looks like to-decimal will be the R3 way:
http://curecode.org/rebol3/ticket.rsp?id=807

How can I track the number of times a word/phrase occurs in a string!
I tried this: 
	if find str "a phrase" [print "found phrase"]
but it seems to only find the first occurance.

is that a joke ?

use parse

There are examples on Rebol.com on how to use parse to count occurences 
ot tags etc.

of course it would be nice to have something like find/all which 
returns a block of all the occurences

Steeve... this is not the humour group!

hmm...
 i: 0 while [str: find/tail str "a phrase"][i: i + 1]

parse str [any [thru "a phrase" (print "found phrase")]]

but it would be more relevant to post such request in "i'm new"

I'm using to highlight parts of strings in a face during a text search. 
so I need to find caret offsets for each and append to the face/effect/draw 
block

findall: func [ st occurrence /local result ][
	result: copy []
	while [ st: find st occurrence ][ append result st st: next st]
	result	
]

>> findall "testing" "t"
== ["testing" "ting"]

in that case, would you want the indexes?

graham's solution does exactly that

something like that has also been proposed for R3.

findall: func [ st occurrence /local result ][
	result: copy []

 while [ st: find st occurrence ][ append result index? st st: next 
 st]
	result	
]

>> findall "testing" "t"
== [1 4]

would it be too clever to return the block at the positions instead 
of the index?

he just needs the offsets

a reference or an offset is the same thing to my mind

whereas a reference fullfills more use cases

but can't be molded

and loaded back

Thanks Graham, I had something almost like that func but not quite...

This is an example of the code I used but it only hi-lites first 
occurance: 

if find face/text butt [
						hs: caret-to-offset face find face/text butt
						he: caret-to-offset face find/tail face/text butt
						fsize: face/size/x
						draw_contents: copy face/effect/draw 
						get_xys ;(Find the shape of the drawn hi-lite)
						append face/effect/draw compose/deep [(shape)]
					]