select and wildcards

[fhein]

Could someone please give an example of how to use select/any? It didn't work the way I thought it would

[CarlRead]

Select returns the value after the match, thus...

Code:

>> str: "abc123def456"
== "abc123def456"
>> select str "123"
== #"d"
>> select/any str "12?"
== #"d"
>> select/any str "c*3"
== #"d"

If that doesn't solve your problem, describe more fully the type of results you want/expect.

[Gabriele]

/ANY doesn't work with blocks, if that's what you were after. It only works for strings.

[fhein]

Yeah, I was trying to use it on a bunch of blocks. Thanks for the example too!

[Gabriele]

For blocks, you could use something like:

Code:

select-any: func [block string] [
   foreach [key value] block [
       if find/any key string [return :value]
   ]
]

Example:

Code:

>> select-any ["abc" 1 "def" 2] "a?c"
== 1
>> select-any ["abc" 1 "def" 2] "d*"
== 2