If you find such an EBNF or create one of your own, please post it. I'm way curious how you'd define the continuation and wrapping and those "magic" column numbers, 72 on the right and I forget how many on the left you can skip (after the first column after // ).
I've tried to do some small things with JCL with Rexx, and the parsing wasn't easy (for me). I always wondered how others do those JCL check macros... Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL? Does anybody have or know of an EBNF description of JCL that I could feed into Flex or Bison? I'm not really too sure that JCL can be described with EBNF. But I'm not very familiar with EBNF. Compiler theory was long ago! And I got a C-. I'm kind of curious to see if it would be possible to use such to create some utilities such as a JCL reformatter and/or validator that would run on my Linux PC (if in Perl or C, then on Windows as well). Then again, I have nothing to do over the Thanksgiving holiday, so maybe I'll just try to create such a thing myself. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
