And how are regular expressions applicable in a Java program that wants to access a field formatted (eg. SMF) record?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
