[REBOL] Re: YYYYMMDD date format
From: mat:eurogamer at: 14-Nov-2000 16:20
Heya johnkenyon,
juic> pad: func [ value (integer!) figures (integer!) ] [
juic> out: copy ""
juic> loop figures - length? to-string value [ append out "0" ]
juic> append out value
juic> ]
Heh, that is is the same way I did it albeit you did it more looking
like Rebol than some spastic BASIC/Arexx type stuff I did :)
What sort of annoys me is the logical way of approaching this problem
is like this;
value: rejoin [ "00" value ]
value: make integer! right [ value 3 ]
All you need is keywords like left and right. Pos does mid, just
dandy.
juic> Arexx parse was nice but rebol parse is good fun. Just keep trying the
juic> examples and you never know...
I need more examples of all code. That's the way I tend to learn. The
script library on rebol.com is often written by guys showing the most
compact form. Unfortunately Rebol in compact form (IE with loads
strings of cascading keywords in a block) is very difficult to work
out.
My current nightmare is trying to figure out how to do buffered
reading and writing. IE reading of a big file from a URL and having it
spool to a file rather than trying to be buffered (/direct just cuts
off for some reason and there's no good explanation in any texts on
how to use /direct properly)
I need to write a copy routine which copies from one URL to another
(latter being FTP), without shoving in memory. There's an example on
rebol.org but this bizarrely just sends small bits of data to the FTP
and appends it rather than keeping a stream going.
Any clues?
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