REBOL 3 Concepts: Series

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This document was written for R2 and has yet to be revised for R3.

The concept of a series is fundamental in REBOL. You need to know it if you are going to be productive with REBOL.

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Definition

A series is an ordered sequence of values.

The these values can be characters, as found in a string!, or they can be values as found in a block! series.

There are other types of series too, but they are similar to strings and blocks. For example, a file! and a url! are other types of string series. A path! and a paren! are block! series.

Example series:

string series:  "ABCD"

file series:    %example.txt

URL series:     http://www.rebol.com

block series:   [1 2 3 4]

paren series:   (1 + 2)

path series:    system/options

There several other series datatypes as well, but they are similar to strings or blocks.

Order of values

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Main functions

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