Depending on what you're trying to do, you may want to do something like this: foreach url parse read %urllist.txt "" [ site: to-url url ; do something with 'site here ] or you might have it go right into a parse or some other operation: foreach url parse read %urllist.txt "" [ parse read to-url url [parse rules here] ] Good luck! -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can anybody help me with a tiny problem, i'm trying to make a rebol script which reads a text file which contains a list of urls, parses the result into a series and store them as a block of urls. extract from the script: webaddresses: read /creative/comms/rebol/scripts/data/urls ; the file urls is a list of urls eg: http://www.yahoo.com http://www.amiga.org/ etc ...... webaddresses: parse webaddresses "" ; now i parse them in order to seperate the url list into a series of strings. -------------------------------------------------------- Problem! i need to convert the contents of webaddresses from a series of strings into a series of urls. failed attempts! webaddresses: make url! webaddresses ; in an attempt to convert all the strings in the series in one go. oneaddress: make url! first webaddresses ; in an attempt to just convert one. i can make a series of urls using the line below .. urls: [ http://www.yahoo.com http://www.amiga.org ] but i'm trying make a series of urls by reading them from a file, so that the routine is portable without needing to be modified. - a big thankyou to all who can help me !!! :) den stai kool --- end of quote ---
