Yes, possibly a bug. The wierd thing is that it works as I expect when the variable assignment is added (sprops: ) to the save. But I see what you mean about load/save and that load always puts a block around the data so I should always be ok. Thanks a lot for your help! Rodney -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Config/INI File Difficulty Re:(3) very confusing. maybe a bug?! ;-) some while later.. if not, note 'save is paired with 'load . in the saved file there are no brackets around, as in save/header %out.dat sprops [] but after loading you have all in a block again. so you can do sprops: LOAD %in.dat this seems to work ok too: save/header %out.dat compose/deep [ sprops: [(sprops)] ] [] instead of: save/header %out.dat compose/deep [ [(sprops)] ] [] evil magic :) you wanted a "sprops:" in your save for doing, hopefully? [REBOL [title: "the save/load - demo"] pdo: func [a] [print ">>>" probe a print "===" do a] write %in.dat { REBOL [] sprops: [ 1 [ a ] 2 ] } pdo[print read %in.dat] pdo [sprops: do %in.dat ?? sprops] pdo [save/header %out.dat sprops [] print read %out.dat print "---" probe load %out.dat ] pdo [save/header %out.dat compose/deep [sprops: [(sprops)]] [] print read %out.dat print "---" probe load %out.dat ] ] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 3-Aug-2000/9:24:35-7:00 > Thanks for the 'compose lesson. I've never had to use it. > I can get something close to what I want, but I still am having > trouble getting the following to work. > > Here is one file %in.dat: > > REBOL [] > [ > ss > [ > item1 "hello" > item2 "goodbye" > ] > > other > [ > n "bad" > ] > ] > > > > Fine. Now a console session.... > > >> sprops: do %in.dat > == [ > ss > [ > item1 "hello" > item2 "goodbye" > ] > other > [ > n "bad" > ] > ] > > >>save/header %out.dat sprops [] > > Here is what %out.dat then contains: > > REBOL [] > > ss > [ > item1 "hello" > item2 "goodbye" > ] > other > [ > n "bad" > ] > > Not what I want. I want (expect) to see exactly what is in > the file %in.dat. So I say, OK, use compose/deep to enclose > the thing in a block. The following: > > >>save/header %out.dat compose/deep [(sprops)] [] > > gives the same %out.dat as before. And this: > > >>save/header %out.dat compose/deep [[(sprops)]] [] > > makes %out.dat look like the following: > > REBOL [] > [[ > ss > [ > item1 "hello" > item2 "goodbye" > ] > other > [ > n "bad" > ]]] > > As you can see there are is now an extra enclosing block instead of just > one!!! > > How do I save sprops, which has the exact form I want, to %out.dat so it > looks exactly like %in.dat??? > > TIA, > > Rodney > Volker
