REBOL [ Title: "Textual User Input" URL: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/User_Input_-_text ] s: n: "" ; Because I have several things to check for, I've made a function to ; handle it. Note the question mark in the function name, this convention ; is often used in Forth to indicate test of some sort. valid?: func [s n][ error? try [n: to-integer n] ; Ignore error if conversion fails. all [0 < length? s 75000 = n]] ; I don't want to give up until I've gotten something useful, so I ; loop until the user enters valid data. while [not valid? s n][ print "Please enter a string, and the number 75000:" s: ask "string: " n: ask "number: " ] ; It always pays to be polite... print rejoin [ "Thank you. Your string was '" s "'."]