[REBOL] Re: ML Host Offer

2009-10-06 Thread Tom
. On Tuesday, 6-October-2009 at 11:58:02 Tim Johnson wrote, The following was sent out yesterday, and bounced back as undeliverable. So I have contacted Sunand, Tom Conlin and Carl. =A0It now looks like the ML is now (for the time being) recognizing me

[REBOL] Re: Fast way to strip characters

2009-10-06 Thread Tom
what he said Graham Chiu wrote: Use parse On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kai Peters kpet...@otaksoft.com wrote: Hi guys, what is a *fast* way to strip chars unwanted from a string? TIA Kai -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as

[REBOL] Re: how to prevent scientific notation for decimal numbers?

2009-07-20 Thread Tom
=DEemseddin Moldibi [ Bircom ] wrote: Hi, how do I prevent Rebol Console to use scientific notation for =3D decimal numbers? 0.005 =3D3D=3D3D 5E-3 0.002 * 2 =3D3D=3D3D 4E-3 =20 Is there a system/option? It varies across, and is consistent within operating systems. on Solaris with rebol

[REBOL] Re: Faster/better way to achieve this?

2009-04-21 Thread Tom
Kai Peters wrote: Hi All ~ I need to eliminate lines from a file that contain one or more words from a= negative list. Below is some simplified code showing how I am currently doing this. Is= there a faster/better way? TIA Kai str:Romeo loves Juliet very much neg:[

[REBOL] Re: Read question in Reb 3.0

2009-02-18 Thread Tom
Hi Raimund disclaimer I have not touched R3 yet. R2 parse is not limited to strings, a binary is still a series and parse will accept a series. have you checked that the parsed result is a block of string and not a block of binaries? if so maybe since some binaries are just strings and

[REBOL] Re: Language Comparisons

2008-10-16 Thread Tom
for me the point of pointlessness for this particular programing party, (in which I have participated) ...is, it's goal is to compare how different languages to the same thing, as in done the same exact way. Rebol's strengths may not lie in doing things the same exact way you would do them in

[REBOL] Re: Seems like a View 2.7.6 if statement issue ......???

2008-10-07 Thread Tom
have you tried something like ... if # first at rec1 2054 + y + j [ ... where the main point is considering the comparison as chars instead of strings and a secondary point is keeping the constants of a comparison first and ordering your expressions not to need parens. John Dutcher

[REBOL] Re: How to properly parse HTML and XHTML Meta Tags

2008-09-12 Thread Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Rebol Group, I'm a bit new, I have a couple of the Rebol books and have gone over the different tutorial a few times but I'm having trouble with the following code of mine. For example: I'm attempting to parse the meta tags but the tag can end in either

[REBOL] Re: Fast replace

2008-08-08 Thread Tom
Kai Peters wrote: Hi ~ given a series like [ joe 155 a-word [ another-word 122 22 word @ [ more-words 122 ' ]= ] ] what is a *fast* way to replace all occurrences of @ with another string? Note that the nesting levels and series composition may vary. Thanks for all

[REBOL] Re: Script Library: Script tagging improvements

2008-06-26 Thread Tom
Thanks Sunanda, Lowering the bar may help get more scripts added, and the tagging could do a better job of categorizing. looks like a win-win to me. Sunanda wrote: www.rebol.org It's been quiet in the Library recently, but we have just released the change that was at the top of most

[REBOL] Re: OS X/Unix excution problem

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Conlin
cron does not start in your normal environment so you may want to change-dir to where you think you should be before doing set-net Kai Peters wrote: OS X Leopard: AM trying to have a REBOL script executed via launchd or cron. The script itself, when manually invoked from a shell (as the

[REBOL] Re: noob question -- insert 2 byte hexidecimal value into binary string

2008-04-14 Thread Tom Conlin
Sorry I need to actually read your question. Tom Conlin wrote: hi Doug search for url-encode on rebol.org you will get some old examples that should still work here is one http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=cookies-client.r DougEdmunds wrote: I am

[REBOL] Re: Test

2008-04-06 Thread Tom
... I'm pink, therefore I'm spam ... Gabriele Santilli wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Carl Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ML should now be back... It was away? Yep, a bit too much spam filtering. ;) You gotta love email. Regards, Gabriele. -- To unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Member Board

2008-02-27 Thread Tom
Solomon Islands .sc Seychelles .sd Sudan .se Sweden .sg Singapore .sh Saint Helena .si Slovenia .sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands .sk Slovakia .sl Sierra Leone .sm San Marino .sn Senegal .so Somalia .sr Suriname .st S=E3o Tom=E9 and Pr

[REBOL] Re: [clean-script shebang] Anyone fixed clean-script.r for shebang lines?

2008-02-24 Thread Tom
why don't you skip to rebol-header? everything before the header is a comment as far a rebol is concerned anyway and yes sometimes I do take advantage of that. Gregg Irwin wrote: Has anyone fixed %clean-script.r so it doesn't alter shebang lines? It sees the line as an issue!, refinements!,

[REBOL] Re: [clean-script shebang] Anyone fixed clean-script.r for shebang lines?

2008-02-24 Thread Tom
just begin coding beneath that as it keeps the script bundled with it's context. If there is data in the file I am apt to put a block around it and use it place. Gregg Irwin wrote: Hi Tom, T why don't you skip to rebol-header? T everything before the header is a comment as far a rebol is T

[REBOL] Re: REBOL dynamic graph code problems and REBOL mindset

2008-02-22 Thread Tom
Hi Max why do you use random/seed to-string now/precise instead of random/seed now/precise ? -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: elegant idiom anyone?

2008-02-12 Thread Tom
Hi Kai I am pretty sure Anton's we was the maillist and not you in specific. Kai Peters wrote: Thanks Anton ~ that's a bit more elegant than my building a new block etc. Just did a quick search of my 128 posts to the rebol list and couldn't find myself having asked this before. So I

[REBOL] Re: Rebol3 gone

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Conlin
:46 PM, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually all altme worlds you are not already connected to are effectively gone. It does not mean the worlds are not there just that you can not reach them because the designed in single point of failure/control is being exercised. I imagine

[REBOL] Re: Rebol3 gone

2008-01-29 Thread Tom
sqlab wrote: I can't connect to rebol3 and http://www.altme.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi shows *Name:* rebol3 *Status:* none What happened? actually all altme worlds you are not already connected to are effectively gone. It does not mean the worlds are not there just that you can not reach them

[REBOL] Re: Rebol3 gone

2008-01-29 Thread Tom
sqlab wrote: I can't connect to rebol3 and http://www.altme.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi shows *Name:* rebol3 *Status:* none What happened? well i am not seeing any major earthquake activity down there ... -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with

[REBOL] Re: noob question / request

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Conlin
Hi Derek The people that can add you will want a full nane , username and email are you using the -qw and or -c --cgi flags in the command line? type in usage at the prompt Derek Robinson wrote: Hi. Couple things -- 1. Someone want to invite me to join the Rebol3 AltMe world? 2.

[REBOL] Re: yuppeeeee :-)

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Conlin
Petr Krenzelok wrote: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 . mark! :-) -pekr- what Petr meant to say before he soiled his trousers is REBOL3 alpha is released for windows. see http://www.rebol.net/wiki/REBOL_3 http://www.rebol.net/builds/rebol3/alpha/rebol29904031.zip -- ... nice weather

[REBOL] test-ignore

2007-12-26 Thread Tom Conlin
seeing if the list is up -- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Object - Word?

2007-12-19 Thread Tom Conlin
Kai Peters wrote: o1: make object! [] o2: make object! [] probe type? o2 object! =3D=3D object! s: [ o1 o2 ] =3D=3D [o1 o2] probe type? s/1 word! =3D=3D word! Hmm - why the type change here from object to word? More importantly, how do I overcome this? I need to iterate over

[REBOL] Re: List of all rebol words

2007-12-07 Thread Tom
for emedit I like to color code by native/action, function, datatype ... haven't run it recently but I imagine it is still rebol[ File: %gen-syntx.r Author: Tom Conlin Date: 10-Apr-2003 Title: generate syntx Library: [ level: 'intermediate platform: 'all

[REBOL] Re: Parse learning problem (simple)

2007-11-29 Thread Tom
Joe Solinsky wrote: Hello, I would very much like to write a trivial parser that will consume the following format letter: charset [#a - #z #A - #Z] digit: charset [#0 - #9] letter-or-digit: union letter digit valid-name: [letter any letter-or-digit] params: [valid-name | valid-name

[REBOL] Re: OT: Competition - Is this solvable

2007-11-25 Thread Tom
Robert M. M=FCnch wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:57:37 +0100, Sunanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote= :=3D =20 =20 No time to write the code (so my hand-waving solution is untested), but I'd say: You are clearly 8800 short of the desired target: =20 Hi, that's right. =20 t: 41695.83 s:

[REBOL] Re: Not Enough Memory

2007-11-25 Thread Tom
terminating loop ? ;) Graham Chiu wrote: recycle ? stats ? On Nov 26, 2007 2:11 PM, Giuseppe Chillemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the first time Rebol Returned me this error: ** Script Error: Not enough memory ** Where: append ** Near: insert/only tail series :value I could I avoid

[REBOL] Re: YouTube Rebol Tutorial

2007-11-08 Thread Tom
recommend you put the link to your site and to rebol in the comments on your pages if that is not allowed perhaps a legible image on screen Nick Antonaccio wrote: Hi everyone :) I created some quick youtube video tutorials, based on my absolute beginner text at

[REBOL] Re: altme

2007-11-07 Thread Tom
Hi Adrian request has been made you should get an email when someone makes the account adrians wrote: Well, that would be Adrian Sampaleanu - thanks again Tom-58 wrote: they like a full name as well adrians wrote: Could I get one too? If available, I'd like adrians as a username

[REBOL] Re: rebol - off line

2007-10-26 Thread Tom
is a mystery to me ... I am guessing RT wants the mail channeled through their commercial server so they retain some control if something goes wrong but they don't seem to really care when it does, and that extra step is just another thing that can and does go wrong. respectfully Tom Tim Johnson wrote

[REBOL] Re: Rebol script competition!

2007-09-28 Thread Tom
Hallvard Ystad wrote: Dixit Gabriele Santilli (20.39 25.09.2007): random r lHedl!loWo, =3D=3D Hello, World! How many times did you have to try before you found the right combination? :) HY r: copy a: 0 until [random/seed a: 1 + a r: random Hello, World! random/seed 1

[REBOL] Re: Rebol script competition!

2007-09-25 Thread Tom
random lR!olebeHlo Alessandro Manotti wrote: Hello, in my italian site I launched a funny Rebol competition. The scope is writing a SMALL Rebol script to write the text Hello, Rebol! without clearly writing the text in the script self. Example: THE FOLLOWING SCRIPT IS NOT VALID:

[REBOL] Re: Rebol script competition!

2007-09-25 Thread Tom
Tom wrote: whoops. random/seed 58993525 random lR!olebeHlo Alessandro Manotti wrote: Hello, in my italian site I launched a funny Rebol competition. The scope is writing a SMALL Rebol script to write the text Hello, Rebol! without clearly writing the text in the script self. Example

[REBOL] Re: Fast way to remove all non-numerical chars from a string

2007-09-24 Thread Tom
Kai Peters wrote: ... For now, all phone numbers hail from North America - so valid lengths are a) 7 digits- local number b) 10 digits - area code included c) 11 digits - leading 1 in front of area code a slightly more rigid grammar to catch bogus numbers digit: charset 0123456789

[REBOL] Re: Fast way to remove all non-numerical chars from a string

2007-09-22 Thread Tom
that is what I was seeing as well Prkr's can be speeded up with bitsets ... filter: charset 0123456789 start: now/time/precise loop 1'000'000 [remove-each char (250) 764-0929 [not find filter char]] now/time/precise - start parse with integers! was faster than remove-each but slower than trim

[REBOL] Re: Algorithm challenge: selecting a range from multiple blocks

2007-09-22 Thread Tom
is it ok for the results to have a mix of new and existing objects is 'data only appended to can 'data objects with empty items: [] be safely deleted from 'data? what is the ratio between updating and querying 'data what are typical ranges? how often do ranges fall within one items block? how

[REBOL] Re: Fast way to remove all non-numerical chars from a string

2007-09-22 Thread Tom
minutely faster than trim/with digit: charset 0123456789 noise: complement digit start: now/time/precise rule: [digit | here: some noise there:(remove/part :here :there) :here] loop 1'000'000 [parse/all (250) 764-0929[some rule]] now/time/precise - start Tom wrote: that is what I was seeing

[REBOL] Re: Removing Tags

2007-08-22 Thread Tom
Carlos Lorenz wrote: Hi list, wich is the most efficient way of getting rid of the tags inside the string bellow? a: psomething here/p thanks foreach item load/markup a[ if not tag? item [print item] ] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at

[REBOL] Re: Security issue with Mepis Linux and Firefox

2007-08-14 Thread Tom
inmotionhosting.com is RT's ISP as far as I know ... You should leave Carl feedback so he knows something may have (delibertly or inadvertently) shifted a bit. John Dutcher wrote: Something new When I try to connect to www.rebol.com Firefox opens a message box stating that the

[REBOL] Re: Elegant ideas someone?

2007-08-11 Thread Tom
Kai Peters wrote: In the function below (intended to be used with Nenad's MySQL driver) the= newvalue keyvalue may need to be framed by single quotes depending on the datatype one passes in. As newbie, I have= found a rather dumb and lengthy solution that works. What I am after is an

[REBOL] Re: Replacing placeholders?

2007-08-08 Thread Tom
Tim Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Carlos Lorenz wrote: Kai, I am afraid a cannot go further on advising you since I am not a heavy user of pdf-maker. Anyway are you using COMPOSE to evaluate data and surrounding them with parens as Tim said? blush I've been extremely busy

[REBOL] Re: How to compose a string with a specific separator

2007-07-12 Thread Tom
Carlos Lorenz wrote: Hi ppl =20 =20 =20 a: [1 2 3] parse a [any [blk: skip (unless empty? next blk [insert next blk ,]) skip ] ] =3D=3D [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] =20 Whenever I read things like that I feel like I miss a lot about the pow= er of REBOL parse dialect. =20 I=B4ll leave a suggestion to

[REBOL] Re: Cleaning up swear words

2007-07-07 Thread Tom
using parse instead of parse/all will get word boundaries Brian Tiffin wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 03:32, Brian Tiffin wrote: Gentle listers, I've got some code to replace swears with comic book #$% stlye strings. Before I post it to rebol.org I thought maybe a few pros could check it

[REBOL] Re: sending e-mail as another user

2007-05-10 Thread Tom
row: parse/all line | row/1 row/2 ... row/:n John Blake wrote: This is why it wasnt working. Although I was using; Send/header [to: to-addr] contents header And could print out the contents of [to: to-addr], it didn't send any email. It was logging in but not sending anything.=20 I

[REBOL] test

2007-04-06 Thread Tom
can you hear me now? -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] links that waste your time

2007-03-14 Thread Tom
http://sucks-rocks.com/rate/javascript/fortran/visual+basic/java/lisp/scheme/perl/php/c/haskell/c%2B%2B/python/erlang/ruby -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] mailspaces bounce test

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Conlin
testing if mail submitted to the rebol list is still getting bounces from mailspaces.com -- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: mailspaces bounce test

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Conlin
know his rebol mail subscription is set to vacation. Tom Conlin wrote: testing if mail submitted to the rebol list is still getting bounces from mailspaces.com -- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email

[REBOL] Re: timeout error checking

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Conlin
On 3/13/07, John Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a script that goes thru a list of ips and logs into the postgres db on those ip's to run a query. It runs well when th eip's are all up. I have to admit I didn't add error checking to deal with if the device doesn't respond. Currently,

[REBOL] Re: mailspaces bounce test

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Conlin
hi grahan how about you actually read the message you are replying to ;) On 3/13/07, Graham Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom How about you remove Sabufrancis from the mail list and we can see if all these bounces stop :) And then Max will stop getting bounces as well! On 3/14/07, Tom

[REBOL] Re: mailspaces bounce test

2007-03-13 Thread Tom
Graham Chiu wrote: Tom Since when was reading a message a requirement to reply to it??! more a politeness requirement than reply requirement. I thought you might have a way to remove him from the list without actually contacting him first. as indicated earlier, setting his rebol

[REBOL] Re: non-gmail origin test

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Conlin
Tom Conlin wrote: retest Tom Conlin wrote: -- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: non-gmail origin test

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Conlin
ump-tenth time is the charm Tom Conlin wrote: retest Tom Conlin wrote: -- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] test...

2007-03-12 Thread Tom
will mailspaces bounce funny messages to me too? -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] non-gmail origin test

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Conlin
-- ... nice weather eh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: testing

2006-12-21 Thread Tom
Tim Johnson wrote: hello Hi Tim Hope you caught some aurora recently -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Proper usage of thru in parse

2006-07-21 Thread Tom
for a non parse solution foreach item load/markup text[if not tag? item[print item]] item1 item2 item3 item4 Mark Chang wrote: I want to use parse to print item1,item2,item3 and item4 in the string = text below. How does one get thru to search either normal or highl= ight before copying