> That's not cheating; Of course it is cheating; it's not a faithful representation of the original program, and it may even break the code.
> On LISTSERV WWW, 'C2AC'. I have no idea where the C2 is coming from; the AC is correct. > In Regina Ref.: Try each of AA and AC on both OOREXX and Regina. This insanity inspired me to writ a TRYNOT script: /* Test whether REXX recognizes all of the logical not characters */ Nots = '\' 'aa'x 'ac'x do 3 parse var Nots Not Nots say 'Trying' Not c2x(Not) interpret 'compare = a' Not'= b' say Not 'recognized' end It's a throwaway; otherwise I would have intercepted the error and written my own message. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression On Sun, 30 May 2021 01:03:04 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> I hate EBCDIC issue, it's a multiple code page set issue!. Pop quiz: when >> using REXX on a PC, is � 'AA'X or 'AC'X? And, yes, you can cheat and use \ > That's not cheating; it's USASCII. Porrtable. >... so you don't have to care which code page and which interpreter, but why >should you have to? And what if you want to download exist REXX code from, >e.g., z/OS, zVM? > In your email I see: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ...is =AC... On LISTSERV WWW, 'C2AC'. In Regina Ref.: 2.5.4.1 Negators Some of the above comparisons can be negated by prefixing a negator character. Regina supports the following characters as negators: \ Backslash (ANSI Standard) ^ Caret ~ Tilde ¬ Logical Not Again, 'C2AC'x. And when I paste it into a script I get a syntax error: Error 13 running "/proc/4320/fd/pipe:[95168888]", line 1: Invalid character in program Error 13.1: Invalid character in program "('c2'X)" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN