Needed: A PARSE Common Patterns Page

Do we have a library of common patterns for parse? If not, I think it would be a useful page to publish.

For example, in R3 here's a parse line that removes all extra lines from a text file (that is, allow only one empty line between paragraphs.)

parse text [some [thru lf [lf some remove lf | none]]]

Here's an a paragraph "unwrap" example. It makes a sequence of adjacent lines into a single long line.

parse doc [
    some [
        not lf thru lf
        some [s: not lf (change back s space) thru lf]
    |
        thru lf
    ]
]

Perhaps you see a slightly better way to write that?

These little parse expressions are really useful, and it'd be great to gather them together onto a single web page so that we don't have to re-invent them each time.

Here's a page where you can post them: Common Parse Patterns.

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