a: [%cast.r %feedback.r %ftp.r %ftp.r~ %instinet.r %instinet.r~ %lconfig.r %lconfig.r~ %nntp.r %notes.html %rebdoc.r %rebol.exe]
foreach file a [if find/match/any file "*.r~" [print ["found one: " :file]]]
 
OR
 
a: [%cast.r %feedback.r %ftp.r %ftp.r~ %instinet.r %instinet.r~ %lconfig.r %lconfig.r~ %nntp.r %notes.html %rebdoc.r %rebol.exe]
pattern: "*.r~"
foreach file a [if find/match/any file pattern [print ["found one: " :file]]]
 
OR for looking directly at the systems directories

files: read %.
pattern: "*.cgi"
foreach file files [if find/match/any file pattern [print ["found one: " :file]]]

found one: demo.cgi
found one: printenv.cgi
found one: webenv.cgi
found one: test.cgi
found one: man.cgi
found one: fetchurl.cgi
found one: hw2test.cgi
found one: wx.cgi
found one: reb_fetch.cgi
found one: fxhtml.cgi

 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:17 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Second request for help: globbing on a block of filenames

I have a block which contains filenames. I would like to get a true or false value back indicating whether or not there is a filename in the block that terminates with a r~ extension.

Please show me how to do this.

>> a
== [%cast.r %feedback.r %ftp.r %ftp.r~ %instinet.r %instinet.r~ %lconfig.r %lconfig.r~ %nntp.r %notes.html %rebdoc.r
%rebol.exe %re...

Could someone show me how to glob for feedback.r?

In other words, I want to say


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