Hi Jeff,
some addition on your explanation of arguments ...
If Rebol is started without a script, it normally only accepts
the rebol arguments, and these are not accessible for a script:
rebol -q
REBOL/Core 2.5.0.4.2 23-Mar-2001
Copyright 2000-2001 REBOL Technologies. All rights reserved.
>> probe system/options/args
none
== none
>>
rebol help
REBOL/Core 2.5.0.4.2
Copyright 1997-2001 REBOL Technologies
...
>> probe system/options/args
none
== none
>>
But you can get arguments into your user.r, by using -- before
your args:
rebol -- -q
REBOL/Core 2.5.0.4.2
Copyright 1997-2001 REBOL Technologies
...
>> probe system/options/args
["-q"]
== ["-q"]
>>
I just thought someone might find this handy.
kind regards,
Ingo
Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoketh thus:
>
> Andrew Martin passed along someone's question:
>
> > > The question is - How does one pass a dynamic list of
> > > arguments to a REBOL script invoked from: a) the rebol
> > > command line b) a DOS batch file c) a Unix shell script?
>
> With Core 2.5 you can take any number of args from the
> command line which are split into separate arguments found
> in system/options/args:
>
> Try this script (unix version):
>
> ;-------------------------------
>
> #!/path/to/rebol
> REBOL [
> Title: "Args checker"
> ]
> foreach obj [options script][
> print [obj #== mold get in system/:obj 'args]
> ] quit
>
> ;-------------------------------
>
> Call the script rargs, put it in your path, make it executable
> and then try stuff like:
>
> rargs 1 2 3
> rargs "1 2" 3
>
> etc..
>
> You should see that system/options/args winds up being set to
> a block containing each argument as a separate string. Then
> if you want to have fun you can use PARSE on the block and set
> various options in a pretty simple way:
>
> rest: copy []
> parse system/options/args [
> some [
> "-q" (quiet: true) |
> "-v" (verbose: yes) |
> "-x" (experimental: on) |
> set other string! (append rest other)
> ]
> ]
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