> Gerry jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> writes Re: Parsing text files with standard words
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>> 2. define a word that parses and processes the rest of the file
>> and call this word at the start of the file. The file can then
>> be INCLUDED e.g. XML can be handled in this way by defining a
>> word called >> handling files generated elsewhere or if other files need to be
>> included in the first file.

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>> I've seen discussions on this deficiency (IMHO at least) in the
>> ANS standard in the c.l.f archives but they all seem rather
>> inconclusive. The fundamental problem is that all words, such as
>> INCLUDED, that change the input source also invoke the Forth
>> text interpreter and there is no standard way of overcoming
>> this. So whenever a file is INCLUDED the application loses
>> control to the text interpreter and, if it wants to use standard ...