REBOL [ Title: "Cellphone reminder" Date: 16-Jun-2000 Version: 0.2 File: %remind.r Author: "Graham Chiu" Purpose: { Reads a file 'data.txt' containing appointment data, and sends my cell phone a text message 5 minutes before the appointment. } Comment: { The data.txt file can be manually updated, but 'remind' also polls a pop mail box daily for messages with 'add' in the subject line. If present, it appends the first line of the message body to the data.txt file. data occurs in the following format per line period time description period ( there are no daily reminders - use your brain! ) - weekday, then is a weekly reminder - day, then is a monthly reminder - month, then is a yearly reminder - date, then is a one off reminder time is a time string, or in the case of yearly reminders, a day of the month. With yearly reminders, the message is sent at 8 am. The following is sample data. "Friday" 19:30 "Farscape Ch2" 20 9:00 {PAYE returns} "December" 25 {Xmas is coming} 1/1/2000 9:00 {New Millenium?} 1/1/2001 9:00 {Another New Millenium?} "Thursday" 18:00 {News Ch1} "Saturday" 18:00 "weekly test" 4-Dec-99 19:00 {one off test} 4 18:04 {monthly test} "December" 4 {annual test} "February" 30 {Will this choke?} "Janvier" 1 {Test error condition} } Email: %gchiu--compkarori--co--nz Lefts: 'GNU Inspiration: { Missing the second part of a two part Star Trek Voyager episode because I tuned into the wrong channel was the mother of this script. } library: [ level: 'intermediate platform: none type: 'tool domain: [file-handling other-net] tested-under: none support: none license: none see-also: none ] ] secure none do %mycellphone.r ; uncomment this if you just want to test ; call-cellphone: func [message] [ ; print join "Cellphone: at " [ now " " message ] ; ] weekday: ["Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" "Saturday" "Sunday" ] months: [ "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June" "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December" ] weekly?: func [period] [find weekday period] monthly?: func [period] [ either integer? period [ if ( ( period > 0 ) and ( period < 32)) [true] ][ false ] ] yearly?: func [period] [find months period] oneoff?: func [period] [ testdt: period either error? try [to-date testdt] [false][true] ] weekly-today?: func [period] [ period = pick weekday now/weekday ] monthly-today?: func [period] [ period = now/day ] oneoff-today?: func [period] [ testdt: period now/date = to-date testdt ] yearly-today?: func [month day] [ ( month = pick months now/month ) and ( day = now/day ) ] parse-data: [ foreach [period ptime description] datafile [ either weekly? period [ if weekly-today? period [ append datablock reduce [ptime description] ] ][ either monthly? period [ if monthly-today? period [ append datablock reduce [ptime description] ] ][ either yearly? period [ if yearly-today? period ptime [ append datablock reduce [8:00 description] ] ][ either oneoff? period [ if oneoff-today? period [ append datablock reduce [ptime description] ] ][ prin [period ptime description ] print join "" [ " **data error - unrecognised period '" period "' in the data.txt" ] ] ] ] ] ] sort/skip datablock 2 ] send-messages: [ foreach [stime message] datablock [ either (now/time + 00:05) > stime [ ; less than 5 mins to scheduled event or ; already past the event - so go for it call-cellphone message ][ wait ( stime - now/time - 00:05 ) call-cellphone message ] ] ] wait-till-2am: [ either now/time < 2:00 [ wait ( 2:00 - now/time ) ][ wait ( 24:00 - now/time + 2:00 ) ] ] get-new-messages: [ do wait-till-2am inbox: open load %popspec.r ;file contains POP email box info remove-mail: true while [not tail? inbox] [ mail: import-email message: first inbox print mail/subject print mail/content subject: trim mail/subject if subject = "add" [ write %mail.txt mail/content ; there must be an text: first read/lines %mail.txt ; easier way to do this! text: join text newline write/append %data.txt text ] either remove-mail [remove inbox][inbox: next inbox] ] close inbox ] remind: [ print "Reminder now active ..." forever [ datafile: load %data.txt ; get the new data each day datablock: make block! 100 ; reinitialise the data block each day do parse-data ; get the events scheduled for today do send-messages ; send all the messages do get-new-messages ; look for new data, and change the data.txt file ] ]