World: r3wp

I don't want to know!

ha ha

it's really incredible.
>>to-file "test]"
== %test%5D
>>to-file "test%5D"
== %test%5D


seems identical, but rebol make the difference. Probably an obscufated 
stuff in the path.

needs to be consistent

Yes, that looks like a mold bug. Or it could be a feature ! :)

%file[0].png is loaded as three values:
>> load "%test[0].png"
== [%test [0] .png
]

Any way to find the creation date of a file. I see modified?

it's not a mold bug, [ is not a valid char in REBOL file! values, 
it has nothing to do with the OS.

>> file: %"test[0].png"
== %test%5B0%5D.png
>> pick file 1
== #"t"
>> pick file 5
== #"["
>> pick file 6
== #"0"
>> to string! file
== "test[0].png"

I think you can use get-modes on a file to get that data

Should that remain that way?  [ being a non-valid char in file! type

Yes, because you can always use %"test[0].png" instead, no need for 
to-file.

except the name is being generated programmatically

So generate all of your names in quotes.

I'm interested to know why the restriction exists

It's not a restriction, it's REBOL syntax. [ is a delimiter, just 
like space (which also requires quotes if put in a filename). Parens 
too.

and why can't we escape it?

^[0^]

Because escaping for file! literals is done with %, not ^. The file! 
type has a different syntax than the string! type.

ok.

The file! and url! types use url-encoding for their literals. At 
least with files you can quote them.

Gabriele, see above where Steeve wrote "it's really incredible."

The first one is url-encoded, the second one isn't (when it probably 
should, I think).

Or maybe that's exactly what you're saying ...

get-modes! That's it !
Thanks Graham!

Anton, Steeve, you have found a bug in file display. The % should 
definitely be url-encoded.

QUESTION:  I have a function that takes on parameter.  This parameter 
can be one of many variables.  I then want to see what the name of 
the parameter was that was processed by the function.  How do I do 
this?

sample function calls:
my-trim name
my-trim address
my-trim phone


what I would like to get from this is the name of the word that was 
passed to the function, so I can conditionaly process the data.

I guess that you're searching for this : http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-9.html#section-3.2

I'll take a look.  Thanks.

Hmm, after looking at this, I then have the reverse problem for the 
remainder of the code, it now doesn't get the value of the parameter 
that was passed.  I'll need to play with this a while longer, but 
it looks like I'm heading in the right direction.  Tx.

>> name: "rebol"
== "rebol"
>> my-trim: func ['word][print [word ":" get word]]
>> my-trim name
name : rebol

I've gotten away from using lit-word params for the most part. Instead, 
I use the lit-word as the arg.

my-trim: func [word] [print [word ":" get word]]
my-trim 'name

why that Gregg?

I knew this at one time, but is there a way to test if a word has 
been set / exists, that doesn't involve error trapping?

>> if error? try [n][print "error"]
error

value? ''word

'word

wasn't there an isset? function one time?

php?

hmm. .yeah

:)

>> value? to-lit-word "monkey"
== false
>> isset?: func[str][value? to-lit-word str]
== [value? to-lit-word str]
>> isset? "monkey"
== "monkey"

??

>> isset?: func[str][value? to-lit-word str]
>> isset? "monkey"
== false

hmm.. working here now too. must have messed up the function somehow.

>> isset?: :value?
>> isset? 'test
== false
>> isset? 'rebol
== true

don't you have to be careful with the binding when doing value? to-word 
"something" ?

Im using it to check a parsed block to see if the value is set.. 
is there a better way?

hi, i would like to know how to open a port with rebol in FTP to 
connect a ISERIES or IBM I or AS400 and execute commande like this 
on  "quote namemft 1" or "cd /" or "quote syscmd call a PGM"

i would like to do it like in dos windows  that the FTP command can 
take a file as input and then execute all commands in that file

If you do
    to-word "something"

in R2 the word returned will be bound to the global context, so it 
will only have a value if a word of that name in the global context 
already has a value. It doesn't matter if you do to-word in a function.