Well, in this case the hammer is the reverse function;
/\.([#$@[:upper:][:digit:]]{1,8})\n/, despite the awkward syntax, is still
cleaner.
Wasn't there a song on the 1960's, Lexity, Lex, YACCitty YACC?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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On Sun, 24 May 2020 05:02:24 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>That sounds like a great use case for regexen.
>
Ob"When your favorite tool is a hammer ..."
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>From: Billy Ashto
>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 3:57 PM
>
>I have an 80-byte LRECL list of filenames (starting in col 1, varying
>lengths), and I need to capture just the last node of the file, and
>store it as a separate word on the record, in col 51.
-- gil
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