On 8/20/2020 1:39 PM, David Boyes wrote: > Since there isn't an existing Pipe stage to deal with NAMES files, > what would be the most efficient way to remove the entry for CLOWN > using CMS Pipes? 30 years ago when I needed to parse an arbitrary NAMES file in a pipeline (and boy was the one I was messing with then arbitrary), I wound up using PATTERN because all the vagaries of comments, extra blanks, extra words in the tag, naked colons, etc. got way too messy using supported stages. I kept that pattern but it turned out to be a one-off that I don't seem to have used since, except for a repeat of the same project the next year.
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