added APPEND-COLUMN, FETCH, LATIN1-TO-UTF8, ROWS?, TO-SQL-DATE updated LIKE, OLEDB?, SORT-ALL (added /reverse) renamed EXCEL-SHEETS? to SHEETS? removed LOOKUP replaced EXECUTE with dedicated SQLCMD and SQLITE functions replaced WORKSHEET with WRITE-EXCEL (about 10x faster) removed all dependencies on VBS and temporary file creation fixed minor Excel column handling limitations excel functions now work with accdb use of deline/lines to speed up line parsing
Nick, I know you've been waiting for someone to take this on for quite some time. Hopefully, this will be generally useful in the not too distant future.
Arnold, all the forks of rebol/rebol are the same repository, including ren/c they cannot delete rebol/rebol.
Github won't remove it anyways. why would they ?
SWhite
Another REBOL-related document has come into existence on the internet. This is documentation, for a very specific audience, about how one might use REBOL for working with data outside REBOL's "natural habitat," in the land of fixed-format data files. It tries to explain which REBOL functions are most useful in that area, and to provide some helpful code modules. The document is located at: http://www.cobolrebol.com/pages/documentation/FixedAndCSVFiles.html
Geomol
New version of The World Programming Language is out. This is a major alpha release with lots of new stuff incl. non-blocking networking by implementing libevent..
OLEDB error handling improved rewrote append-column and added /dup refinement added merge/default refinement load-dsv parse logic fix to handle utf8 Replaced to-sql-date with to-rebol-date and to-string-date rows? and first-line faster load-dsv/delimit renamed /with load-dsv/split now a separate split-dsv func added unarchive can update via conditon (e.g. [all [find c2 "@" c2: first parse c2 "@"]]) munge now accepts vector! alphanums?, alphas? and digits? now also accept binary! digits? also checks for not empty replaced like with like and glob added write-excel/filter added spec? function sqlcmd now does a SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF added /string to load-excel added /hdr to load-excel added remove-column added to-string-time added binary-file? added spec?/as-is fixed obscure group bug with to-block handle presence of u160 re-added formula support to write-excel, e.g. write-excel/filter %test.xlsx [ "Test" ["Response" "Count" "Yes" 10 "No" 5 "" "=SUM(B2:B3)"] [20 10] ]
Red's github repo just passed 1000 stars bar, not a big deal compared to mainstream languages, but still significant enough to mention. This is the first time an open source project from Rebol's ecosystem reaches that level. This means that we are on the right track, and Red is gaining more momemtum with each new release. Hope this will motivate more people to help us continue pushing it higher and higher. ;-)
Gregg
Congratulations Doc!
Approaching 300 members on the Gitter channel now too.
Will
1000 stars is great! Hopefully half of them are ladies! 8-)