World: r3wp

so return those in a block where there exists more than one?

yep.

which is essentially what I was trying to do above

what instances have you needed this?

but its so usefull in simplifying many other loops and algorithms.

when managing data sets, you often want to know what is unique "within" 
that set.   

duplicates and singletons are often-required things you want to know 
about a data set.

i guess make a wish on curecode for R3

yes... I just thought about that.

I will.

Has anyone a simple algorithm for calculating the last day of a month? 
 Or is a lookup table easiest?


get-end-month: func [ d [date!] /local tmp ][ tmp: d while [ tmp/month 
= d/month ][ tmp: tmp + 1 ] tmp ]

get-end-month: func [ d [date!] /local tmp ][ tmp: d while [ tmp/month 
= d/month ][ tmp: tmp + 1 ] tmp - 1 ]

get-end-month: func [ d [date!] /local tmp ][ tmp: d  tmp/day: 28 
while [ tmp/month = d/month ][ tmp: tmp + 1 ] tmp - 1 ]

set 'last-day-of-month func [date /local d] [
    d: date
    d/day: 1
    d/month: d/month + 1
    d: d - 1
    d
]

nice

>> append [] 'now/precise
== [now precise]

is there a better way?

Is this better? To get an unevaluated now/precise into a block:
    append [] [now/precise]

possibly...

found a different way, so won't be needed.

I wanted a nice way to produce fragmented message strings that will 
be translated later, using a TRANSLATE function. So I made this function:

tell: func [blk /local out s] [
	out: make string! 10000
	parse blk [
		any [
			[
				set s string! (append out translate s)

    | to any-type! copy code [to string! | to end] (append out to string! 
    reduce [#"'" mold/only do code #"'"])
			]
			(append out #" ")
		]
	]
	join trim out #"."
]

>> file: what-dir
== %/c/program files/rebol/view/

>> tell ["File" file "cannot be found"]
== {File '%/c/program files/rebol/view/' cannot be found.}

>> append/only [] 'now/precise
== [now/precise]

interesting, thanks

Henrik, I don't think that's nice, because you can't really translate 
"File" and "cannot be found" separately. Don't expect all languages 
to have the same grammar structure etc.

Gabriele, probably not, but the language system, I'm working with 
works like this.

a better one would probably input the string like:

File %1% cannot be found.

Maybe I should do that...

What I did for the network detective was "File <file> cannot be found." 
See SUBSTITUTE in http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/libs/utility.r

ok, thanks

(I think that <filename> or %filename% etc. helps the translator 
a lot more than %1% or anything like that. Of course, Qtask uses 
%1%. :-)

how do you determine the order without referring to the tag twice?

ok, I see what you're doing....

Anyone got a suggestion on how to flatten the results of a SQL query.
Got [ [ "xxx" ] [ "yyy" ] [ "zzz" ]]
and want 
[ "xxx" "yyy" "zzzY ]

now
to-block form [ [ "xxx" ] [ "yyy" ] [ "zzz" ]]

does not work ... due to Rebol evaluating the contents

sure I could iterate over the whole lot and create a new block ...

>> collect [foreach item [["xxx"] ["yyy"] ["zzz"]] [keep item]]  
   
== ["xxx" "yyy" "zzz"]

Even simpler:
>> map-each item [["xxx"] ["yyy"] ["zzz"]] [first item]
== ["xxx" "yyy" "zzz"]

heh .. not used map-each or collect before .. are these in R2 ?

in 2.7.7 at least

Part of R2/Forward.

Ah... I'm using 2.7.6 and they're not there

Then just write the single line that is flatten :)

done that ...

I thought there might be some other trick I could use

well,  I will use the to-block form and if that errors out drop back 
to flatten

Try parse, it should be quick:


>> parse [["xxx"] ["yyy"] ["zzz"]] [(f: copy []) any [set b block! 
(append f first b)]]                                             
                           
== true

>> 
f
== ["xxx" "yyy" "zzz"]

Of course, it would be quicker using insert back tail but that would 
have made the one-liner longer ;-)

Nevermind, it's already verbose enough :)

parse it is then!

Speed, speed, speed! :)

well, I thought we should really have a native for this ....  where's 
Cyphre's JIT compiler??

Why should it be native?

cause its going to be A LOT faster and for things like database queries, 
this can become quite a bottleneck.