In <of46a61f33.3d28353f-onc1257673.0052707b-c1257673.00538...@deutscherring.de>, on 11/19/2009 at 04:12 PM, Michael Klaeschen <michael.klaesc...@deutscherring.de> said:
>Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common >amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have >other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular >expressions. Would that that were true. One of the reasons that I use Perl as much as I do is that REXX does not have reasonable parsing facilities, although REXX is better at parsing columnar data. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html