In addition, a dash (aka hyphen, minus sign) can be used anywhere a
digit can (i.e. 2nd through 8th character within any qualifier).
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At 2/23/2006 08:56 AM, BDissen wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:12:44 SFlynn wrote:
I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset
name. Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in
the archives...
Don't know RE's but.....
- Maximum length 44
- Structure is FOO followed by ("." FOO) from zero to 21 times
(21 times making up the 44 character length)
- FOO is one to eight characters
- First character is Alphabetic or #$@
- Second to eighth is alphabetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] or numeric
- Can this be described as an RE?
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