<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Alan, that's good to know. I don't much like the name #upToWith: anyway; it was just the first reasonable thing that came to mind.<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Josh</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Alan Knight wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font size="3">VisualWorks has that one, as #through:, and the
#corresponding throughAll: for a collection argument.<br><br>
At 11:56 PM 2010-03-11, Josh Gargus wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">#upTo: is inconvenient for this
because the result doesn't include the matched character. If we had
#upToWith: we could write:<br><br>
| in | in := 'This is a (string) with some (parenthetical fields)'
readStream. <br>
String streamContents: [:out | [in atEnd] whileFalse: [out nextPutAll:
(in upToWith: $( ); nextPutAll: (in upToWith: $) ) asUppercase]]<br><br>
Cheers,<br>
Josh<br><br>
<br>
On Mar 11, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:<br><br>
>>>>>> "Travis" == Travis Griggs
<<a href="mailto:travisgriggs@gmail.com">travisgriggs@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> <br>
> Travis> Given strings of the form<br>
> <br>
> Travis> 'This is a (string) with some (parenthetical
fields)'<br>
> <br>
> Travis> turn them into<br>
> <br>
> Travis> 'This is a (STRING) with some (PARENTHETICAL
FIELDS)'<br>
> <br>
> Somehow, I think streams and #upTo: are gonna be the key there.<br>
> <br>
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