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
