Re: running a 'pipeline' as a loop?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:59 PM, tom s <tshmit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to apply (essentially) the same transformation to an input doc several times. In my case, I've got an 'base' doc and several 'update' docs. The update docs contain elements that should replace their corresponding elements in the base doc. There can be a variable number of update docs.



This is essentially a list - folding operation. Use f:foldl().

Recently I answered a similar question in a MSDN forum, the only
difference was that the OP wanted to apply a list of replace
operations on a string and use each partial result as the input for
the next replace operation.

See it here (at the end of the thread):

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3995256&SiteID=1



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