[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
Joel Neely wrote: > Good questions, to which I'll add another: > > If you were born on 29 Feb 2000, when did your next > birthday occur? > > Given the irregularities in the current calendar scheme, I guess I'd have to wonder about the purpose of the calculation before forming opinions re d

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Charles
Here's a variant. Suppose I only want characters 2 through 5? Or 3 until the end? Or I want to remove those selections? Personally, I have a hard time working with series! with next and skip and tail and so forth. A pointer to a list element which I cannot see irritates me. - Origin

[REBOL] Re: Forms dialect

2002-07-03 Thread RebOldes
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 6:12:31 AM, you wrote: AM> Hi, everybody! AM> I've been working on a forms dialect for Rebol, that automatically generates AM> HTML code from a basic description of the form. At the moment, I've got the hmm... I was thinkeng about form dialect two days ago

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Joanna Kurki
At 15:49 3.7.2002 -0400, you wrote: >What line of code in REBOL will crop text? (Without loops) > >For example, I want the first 3 characters in the string "asdfghjkl". > >Result should be: "asd". >> A: "this is a string" >> B: copy/part a 3 >> print B thi Ok? >Thanks! >Matt > >-- >To unsu

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Matt, do you mean something like: copy/part "asdfghjkl" 3 ; == "asd" -L - Original Message - From: "Matthew Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: [REBOL] Newbie Q: Cropping text What line of code in REBOL will crop te

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Questions

2002-07-03 Thread Joanna Kurki
At 13:20 3.7.2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I'm just getting started with Rebol. > >But it seems exciting so far. I'm new too.. It's amazing allthough on many parts IMHO a bit mindboggling. Especially those examples found on Rebol site.. I really don't get how many of them work. >I

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Christopher Ross-Gill
Hi Matt, > For example, I want the first 3 characters in the string "asdfghjkl". > > Result should be: "asd". If you want to 'crop' a string! or any kind of series!, use copy -- >> copy/part "asdfghjkl" 3 == "asd" - Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROT

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Ladislav, Ladislav Mecir wrote: > > >> age 29/2/2004 28/2/2005 > == [0 11 28] > >> datedelta 29/2/2004 28/2/2005 > == [0 11 30] > > >> age 29/2/2004 1/3/2005 > == [1 0 1] > >> datedelta 29/2/2004 1/3/2005 > == [1 0 0] > Good questions, to which I'll add another: If you were born on 2

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Parse Problem!

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Gary, <> ... I have the following code fragment. All I get at the end is false. After reading the manual examples it seems as if I should at get 1, 2 and 3 printed. I'm not even getting 1! I'm obviously missing something. == UserInput: "hello there!" punctuation: chars

[REBOL] Re: Rugby

2002-07-03 Thread Ammon Johnson
Hi, How odd... I thought that I tried that. Anyhow, it should be working like a charm now... ;-) Thanks for being patient with me! Enjoy!! Ammon A short time ago, Maarten Koopmans, sent an email stating: > Now try this on the server: > > configure-rugby [ set ip address for stubs

[REBOL] Re: rugby and importing function

2002-07-03 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi, Using Rugby you can create function that return parameterized or composed code. It is simple: coder: func [][ return [ func [in][probe in]]] on the client side you just do: get-rugby-service my-func: do coder my-func 10 >>10 You just return a block of code on the server that you 'do on

[REBOL] Re: Removing Items

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Ken, <> Simple question (hopefully). I'm reading from a very large quoted-comma delimited text file and writing to a quoted-comma delimited text file. I want to skip over the forty-first element and continue sending the rest of the record to the outbound file. This would be repeated for eve

[REBOL] Re: Removing Items

2002-07-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Ken, << Simple question (hopefully). I'm reading from a very large quoted-comma delimited text file and writing to a quoted-comma delimited text file. I want to skip over the forty-first element and continue sending the rest of the record to the outbound file. This would be repeated for ever

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Parse Problem!

2002-07-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Gary, Try this: UserInput: "hello there!" punctuation: charset ",./\!" parse UserInput [ ["hello" | "hi" | "howdy"] (print 1) ["there" | punctuation] (print 2) [punctuation (print 3) | to end] ] There are many subtleties to PARSE, many of which you only learn about by trying things.

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Questions

2002-07-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Gary, (or is it Miller?) << 1. Is the an archive that can be downloaded of this mailing list. >> http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/index.html << 2. Are there any Rebol chatbots examples out there available for download. A chat bot is a program designed to responded to English inputs w

[REBOL] Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew Kim
What line of code in REBOL will crop text? (Without loops) For example, I want the first 3 characters in the string "asdfghjkl". Result should be: "asd". Thanks! Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the qu

[REBOL] Newbie Parse Problem!

2002-07-03 Thread Miller Gary
I have the following code fragment. All I get at the end is false. After reading the manual examples it seems as if I should at get 1, 2 and 3 printed. I'm not even getting 1! I'm obviously missing something. == UserInput: "hello there!" punctuation: charset [#"," #"." #"/"

[REBOL] Re: rugby and importing function

2002-07-03 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Olivier, On Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 5:35:55 PM, you wrote: OF> fall down, the client can no more "execute the foo function. Does it OF> exist a trick to really import the function to the client side ? In OF> that case I would have just to get the function from the server and, OF> when the

[REBOL] Newbie Questions

2002-07-03 Thread Miller Gary
Hi Everyone, I'm just getting started with Rebol. But it seems exciting so far. I have a chatbot written in VB.Net that I am considering porting to Rebol. Just a few questions: 1. Is the an archive that can be downloaded of this mailing list. 2. Are there any Rebol chatbots examples out t

[REBOL] Removing Items

2002-07-03 Thread Ken
Greetings, Simple question (hopefully). I'm reading from a very large quoted-comma delimited text file and writing to a quoted-comma delimited text file. I want to skip over the forty-first element and continue sending the rest of the record to the outbound file. This would be repeated for ev

[REBOL] Re: redirected URLs

2002-07-03 Thread Christopher Ross-Gill
Hi Richard, > I would like to dynamically access info about graphics on a web page. So I > surf to a web page and parse on { surf to ... > [1] http://www.xyz.com/ > which is redirected to ... > [2] http://www.xyz.com/abc/index.php > ... > Is there a way to get the "address" of a webpage even thou

[REBOL] redirected URLs

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Boyd
I would like to dynamically access info about graphics on a web page. So I surf to a web page and parse on {http://www.xyz.com/ which is redirected to ... [2] http://www.xyz.com/abc/index.php I can use "split-path" to extract the path from this URL ... IF I knew what this redirected (second

[REBOL] rugby and importing function

2002-07-03 Thread Olivier Flauzac
Hello I ask myself a question about importing a rebol function with rugby : I have a server providing a function foo if on the client I do a get-rugby-service I can use the function foo as it was on the client but, as I've seen, it always executes on the server. So if the server fall down, th

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi, >> age 29/2/2004 28/2/2005 == [0 11 28] >> datedelta 29/2/2004 28/2/2005 == [0 11 30] >> age 29/2/2004 1/3/2005 == [1 0 1] >> datedelta 29/2/2004 1/3/2005 == [1 0 0] Which results are correct? -L -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

[REBOL] Re: sending objects via a network connection

2002-07-03 Thread Maarten Koopmans
This is easily done with Rugby: Make a function that returns any object. Serve it. Import the function on the client side. Call it on the client side. You got your object. --Maarten Olivier Flauzac wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to send entire objects, and not only function of objects over > a

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Porter Woodward
Hey - why not use the follow approximation: birthdate: day-month-year today: now/date daysold: today - birthdate yearsold: to-integer daysold / 365.2425 Since to-integer always rounds down, you end up with an a relatively accurate age. REBOL seems to be pretty good about date arithmetic (acc

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Andrew, Andrew Martin wrote: > > Using Rebol (of course!), how would I convert a date of birth to > an age in years, months and days? > First a couple of observations: - Date arithmetic is non-trivial; tricks with 365.25 (or 365.2425, to be more precise ;-) days are fragile in the pre

[REBOL] sending objects via a network connection

2002-07-03 Thread Olivier Flauzac
Hi, I'm trying to send entire objects, and not only function of objects over a network. My goal is to design an object server, waiting for tcp connections, able to send an object containing datas and function to work on that object on other nodes of a network. Actually, when I try to do this,

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Ammon, On Tuesday, July 02, 2002, 2:25:17 PM, you wrote: AJ> What? Come again? How does [now/date - 1-Jan-1980] come up with 8218? That's the number of days. You could divide that by 365 to get your answer; well, you could also do something like: >> to-date reduce [1900 1 now/date - 1-

[REBOL] Re: Multi-threading?

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew Kim
<> Is there a mail protocol that allows for synchronus operation? One thought I had for an asynchronus approach to my problem would be, for the REBOL script to first pull 5 emails from the inbox. From there, concurrently process the 5 emails. Is there a guide for Rugby, I think it's a little

[REBOL] Re: Examining the layout object

2002-07-03 Thread Carl Read
On 03-Jul-02, Brett Handley wrote: > Hi Carl, > As Anton has shown, it finds a face that has the specified shortcut > key defined on it. It is called by another part of VID to implement > shortcut keys for VID layouts. Based on the logic of this function I > wrote a few face search functions tha

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Oldes, RebOldes wrote: > > Hello rebol-list, > > does anybody has/know some script for detecting type of operating > system rebol is running in? > I think the following information will help you. It was snarfed from the REBOL script embedded in http://www.rebol.com/releases.html

[REBOL] Library update

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
I've sent up a pile of Rebol/Values to: http://www.reboltech.com/library/library.html It includes the latest version of my Wiki. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subje

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Andrew, There is a possibility to write the function as follows: age: function [birth [date!] date [date!]] [years months days new] [ if date < birth [ return head insert age date birth '- ] days: date/day - birth/day if negative? days [ months: birth/month +

[REBOL] Re: Rugby

2002-07-03 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Now try this on the server: configure-rugby [ set ip address for stubs to 172.30.8.2002 ] serve [ functions here] If you can: do get-rugby-service ... the stubs will have the correct ip-address internally. This is needed when a machine has multiple netwrok interfaces (for example in a demili

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Anton
Hi Oldes, system/version can tell you. It looks like the platform is encoded into the version tuple at positions four and (usually) five. MS Windows is 3.1 If you go to http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html you can see: Microsoft Windows (All) iX86 1.2.1.3.1 view-pro031.zip So a te

[REBOL] Re: FTPGadget Version 1.1

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
Reichart wrote: > Please send you feedback about the product to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent some! Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Global Words

2002-07-03 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Ammon, in my opinion we should distinguish two different situations. The first one is, whether a given word exists in a given context. Example: in system/words first to block! "xxx" ; == none This tells us, that the word 'xxx doesn't exist in the Global context. Another example: o:

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Nenad Rakocevic
Hi, switch system/version/4 [ 1 [print "I'm on AmigaOS"] 2 [print "I'm on MacOS"] 3 [print "I'm on Windows"] 4 [print "I'm on Linux Libc6"] ... ] See http://www.rebol.com/platforms.html for a complete list. HTH, -DocKimbel. Gregg Irwin wrote: > > Hi Oldes, > > << does a

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
Oldes wrote: > does anybody has/know some script for detecting type of operating system rebol is running in? >> rebol/version == 2.5.0.3.1 http://www.rebol.com/platforms.html So, I must be running Windows 95/98/NT (or perhaps XP). The last two numbers as Operation System Major and Minor Vers

[REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro viewer

2002-07-03 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Ammon Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro viewer > Volker has something that is a good start, it is available on > the de

[REBOL] Forms dialect

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
Hi, everybody! I've been working on a forms dialect for Rebol, that automatically generates HTML code from a basic description of the form. At the moment, I've got the forms generation part working, and I've still got the checking and post/get -ing to work. Here's what I've got so far. (Watch out

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Oldes, << does anybody has/know some script for detecting type of operating system rebol is running in? >> There are win? and unix? system words, but I don't know what context they live in to make use of them. --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROT

[REBOL] Re: Evaluating if's

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
>12 responses from 7:09am to 9:10am. Wowzers. Slow list, otherwise there would be less responses. :) Andrew Martin Coording the Rebolution with pigeons! :) ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

[REBOL] Re: Compress vs gzip/zlib

2002-07-03 Thread Andrew Martin
oldes wrote: > hmm... TAR... will have to look at that... > 3years... the best time to start. It would be nice to have a Rebol/TAR, that can also handle .gz files as well. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMA