Heretic! <grin> I love Perl. But REXX is very good too. But I would like ooREXX on z/OS. And I want Perl regular expressions put into legacy z/OS facilities, including REXX. I'd love the PDF editor to be able to do Perl, or even POSIX, regular expression finds and changes! It already has the p'...' for "picture"(?). How about r'...' for regexp? Or even a new primary command called "regexp" followed by a perl-like regular expression which could do either a "find" or a "change" similar to how "sed" works. Yes, I like "sed" and "awk" as well.
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 00:27 -0500, Justin R. Bendich wrote: > >>I do not know if it is from the IBM Ported Tools or where, but we > >>have Perl on z/OS: > > >That's 5.8.7; it's well and truly obsolete. > > No matter what the version, perl is an abomination unto the LORD. > > Really, you can't use REXX? Maybe with a dash of ASM thrown in? > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
