questions about VID and parse.

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I assume that you are wishing to dynamically create text-type labels depending on the contents of a block series. That is a little trickier than statically laying them out, as you may have discovered. Here is one way to do it (liberally commented): a: ["first" "second"] ;clear a fresh block to receive the dynamic layout information layout-data: copy [] ;loop through the series foreach datum a [ ;append the dialect word "text" to the layout data block append layout-data [text] ;append the information to be displayed by the text word append layout-data datum ] ;layout-data now is a block ready to be interpreted by the ;view/vid & layout dialect parser view layout layout-data

I am unsure about the answer to the second question. I suspect that this will require a "rule" but I am unsure how to word the rule (my parse skills have grown a tad rusty during a resent REBOL programming abscence).

You are welcome. Hope I assumed correctly on your first question. Don't hesitate to re-ask if I asumed incorrectly. --Scott Jones

So basically, I have to create a block like [text "item1" text "item2" text "item3], right? It seems there is not way to write a function to avoid rebuilding a new list.

So... I will try to get some explanations about rules! Thanks Stephane

list. Hi, Stephane, Perhaps I have inadvertantly caused some confusion. Perhaps I do not exactly understand the functionality that you seek. Communications can be so fragile at times. As you may well know, /View is REBOL's gui extension. Although /View can be programmed directly, most prefer to use the dialect extension VID (video interface dialect). A block of interface description language is presented to the layout command, which can interpret the block into a form presentable for the view command. Hence, one frequently will use the following sequence for a quick layout: view layout [ text "Hello" text "Goodbye" ] The block (bracketed text) is presented to 'layout which then digests the dialect for use by 'view. Alternatively, some let 'layout process the block and later present the information to 'view: lo: layout [ text "Hello" text "Goodbye" ] view lo When you asked your question earlier, I made some assumptions, which is always very hazardous. I assumed that you were needing a way to present dynamically generated data in a window as in text-type format (aka a type of label). My simplisitic method allowed for a block of text values to then be laid out in a VID dialect block that is then presentable for 'layout. Does this make sense? If you simply need to format labels in a window and already know the labels, I would recommend one of the static methods mentioned herein. However, if you don't know what the labels are in advance, then consider using some variation on the theme that I gave in the last email. Have I caused more confusion? Regards, --Scott Jones

[Coussement Christophe] welcome ;-))

[Coussement Christophe] try:

== ["hello" "world"]

hope it helps ! ==christophe

I interpreted the question as wanting "wo" to be the marker/delimiter between fragments of the string, instead of whitespace. That could be done something like this: marker: "wo" fragment: "" collection: [] parse-rule: [ any [ copy fragment to marker (append collection fragment) marker ] copy fragment to end (append collection fragment) ] which gives:

== true

== ["hello " "rld"] only leaving open the issue of the trailing whitespace in "hello ", but that wasn't stated in the delimiter... -jn- -- ; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]} REBOL [] # despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"] ; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"} print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;