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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

You're reading from   Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red Get up and running with the Red language for full-stack development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130706
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Red's Mission FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up for Development 3. Using Words, Values, and Types 4. Code-Controlling Structures 5. Working with Series and Blocks 6. Using Functions and Objects 7. Working with Files 8. Parsing Data 9. Composing Visual Interfaces 10. Advanced Red 11. Assessments
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Loading and saving files

Red also has the save and load words, that can be used interchangeably with write and read. However, save and load are generally used to store more complex data structures, and in particular to store and load Red code. But we already know that in Red, code can be treated as data.

To see for yourself that save and load can be used for data, answer question 4 in the Questions section.

The save word can also be used to write data into a string or binary value.

In particular, if you have a file with data items separated by a space, load will transform that into a series with the items. Suppose we have a names file with the following contents:

"John" "Dave" "Jane" "Bob" "Sue" "Sarah" "Mikhail" "Rudolf" "Nenad"

If we use load to read in that file, we get the following:

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