I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the impression, though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I mistaken?
Remember, the topic of the moment was whether there's any use for REXX ~outside~ TSO. This was on a Windows system; I'm guessing awk wouldn't be one of the available tools (even if I knew anything about it, I mean). --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. (Other times just because they forgot.) -from "Are You an Engineer?" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 13:06 On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:12 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > > ... writing a REXX that read the raw firewall extract and created a CSV in > about 20 seconds. REXX makes ~very~ short work of parsing. At the time I > don’t think I knew VBScript, but it surely would have been harder. > For that sort of thing, I generally rely on "awk". PARSE and regex have considerable overlap. > ... Again, I see REXX's most valuable strength as parsing strings. > Occasionally that strength is valuable outside TSO. > I nominate ADDRESS SYSCALL and ADDRESS ISREDIT. What other languages are comparable? OK. The SYSCALL functions are mostly in C RTL, and ISREDIT commands callable from HLASM, C, COBOL, ... but harder. Now that ISPF Edit has regex, it would be precious if it suupported back-references. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
