I am reading Rebol Wikipedia page. "Parse expressions are written in the parse dialect, which, like the do dialect, is an expression-oriented sublanguage of the data exchange dialect. Unlike ...

From the REBOL/Core Users Guide, and What is Red, I have learned that both Rebol and Red use definitional scoping. From the guide, I know it is a form of static scoping, "the scope of a variable i...

All port operations in Rebol 3 are asynchronous. The only way I can find to do synchronous communication is calling wait. But the problem with calling wait in this case is that it will check event...

I'm trying to see if I can use Red (or Rebol) to implement a simple DSL. I want to compile my DSL to source code for another language, perhaps Red or C# or both - rather than directly interpreting ...

I want to remove all characters in a string except: - or _ or . A thru Z a thru z 0 to 9 space On linux command line, using sed I would do this: $ echo "testing-#$% yes.no" | sed 's/[^-_.a-zA-...

Sometimes, I tend to do next next a (repeatedly) to get at a particular element. This works well when you need 2 or less traversals. However, it gets cumbersome pretty soon. A loop is too much over...

the question is about parsing an html stream obtained by load/markup in a way you can get html tags constituent parts, i.e. when you find <div id="one">my text</div> you should end...

I am trying to make an awk like tool that uses Rebol 3 to process bigger text files with bash pipes and tools. I am having a problem reading STDIN line by line in Rebol 3? For example this shell ...

Set set-net with appropriate values, but get this message when trying to send an email using esmtp.r from rebol.org. Any ideas what this means?

How to remove the default title bar on rebol?

Using the REBOL/View 2.7.8 Core, I would like to prepare a view layout beforehand by automatically assigning words to various layout items, as in the following example. Instead of prepared-view: ...

I am using Rebol 2.7.8.3.1. I am trying to escape an @ symbol in my url, but it is not working. I have also tried manually escaping it, but that does not work either. I have tried the following: ...

I searched a lot on Google as well as Stackoverflow. I could not find How to get Cookies (or in general, The HTTP Headers)from a Webpage and then edit it and send it back? [I know how to make POST...

Apparently un-catchable error while toying around with Rebol/Core (278-3-1) to make a kind-of web-server to serve a static text, containing a redirect link to a new service location. The specific ...

Rebol 2 stopped working on Ubuntu after upgrading to 15.10. I am getting error- ./rebol ./rebol: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...

I'm interested in searching on a lot of long strings, to try and hack out a sed-like utility in rebol as a learning exercise. As a baby step I decided to search for a character: >> STR: "abc...

Rebol and Smalltalk's expression evaluating precedences have some similarity, both of them are very simple. Rebol's evaluation order, according to clauses in http://rebol.com/r3/docs/concepts/math...

Rebol2 has an /ANY refinement on the FIND function that can do wildcard searches: >> find/any "here is a string" "s?r" == "string" I use this extensively in tight loops that need to perfor...

What are the differences between the different Rebol 3 branches, especially with the new REN branch? Is it the platforms they'll run on, the feature set, code organization, the C standard complian...

I have a mysql schema like below: data: { `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(10) DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'the name', `content` text COMMENT 'something', } now I want to ...

I was reading Bindology and tried this: >> type? first ['x] == lit-word! >> type? 'x == word! I expected type? 'x to return lit-word! too. Appreciate any insights.

An annoying problem I'm having with the REBOL3 REPL is that it won't accept multi-line statements. For instance, I would like to type "some_obj: make obj! [" , hit enter, and then continue the stat...

The only information I can find on the datatype UTYPE! is "not yet been documented for R3" and "user defined datatype", still giving a shred of hope that I can break out of Rebo...

Seeing as you can limit the parameters of functions to specific datatypes, it stands to reason that you might want to define your own datatype, yet I cannot see anything in the Rebol docs that sugg...

In rebol I have written this very simple function: make-password: func[Length] [ chars: "QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM1234567890" password: "" loop Length [append password (pick chars random Lengt...