parse:core — ordinary primitive
FORTH
PARSE
( delim-char -- buffer-start buffer-count )( | ) ; |
; |
parse a piece of input (not much unlike WORD) and place it into the given buffer. The difference with word is also that WORD would first skip any delim-char while PARSE does not and thus may yield that one. In a newer version, PARSE will not copy but just return the word-span being seen in the input-buffer - therefore a transient space.
dpANS .6.2.2008 - standard forth word