Hi Ralph:
Thanks! It's my day off today... will check it
out. Boy, do I like this group!
tim
>> I would like to read a text file a line at
>> a time. What's more, I would like to read each
>> line into a variable.
>> After looking at the draft manual and reading
>> fillines.html, I attempted the following code:
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> file: open/read %test.txt
>> foreach line file [print line]
>> ;like to replace the above line of code
>> ;with one that reads into a variable
>> ;perhaps for parsing or modification
>> ;and then prints it
>> close text
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> {The second line of code generates an error message}
>>
>
>Hi Tim:
>
>I would do it something like this:
>
>file: read/lines %test.txt ; read the file line by line
>into a variable
>z: length? file ; find out how many lines there
>are
>x: 0 ; use this variable to track
>lines
>loop z [ ; set up a line by line loop
> x = x + 1 ; specify line number in
>sequence
> print pick file x ; print the current line number
> ]
>
>In the loop, of course, you can add whatever you wish to manipulate each
>individual lines.
>
>You'll find REBOL elegantly simple for operations of this type.
>
>--Ralph
>
>
>
