REBOL 3 Functions: encode

encode type data /options opts

Encodes a datatype (e.g. image!) into a series of bytes.

Arguments:

type [word!] - Media type (jpeg, png, etc.)

data [image! binary! string!] - The data to encode

Refinements:

/options

opts [block!] - Special encoding options

Description

Used to call codecs to encode datatypes into binary data (bytes).

Codecs are identified by words that symbolize their types. For example the word png is used to identify the PNG codec.

See the system/codecs for a list of loaded codecs. Codecs can be native (built-in), externally loaded, or even coded in REBOL.

The line:

save %photo.bmp image

Is roughly equivalent to:

data: encode 'bmp image
write %photo.bmp data