The regexp in IBM's C is POSIX complaint. PCRE can be much more powerful. The IBM "sed" UNIX command only allows POSIX regexps. Frustrates the bleep out of me. So I don't use "sed" much any more. I use Perl itself.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Not to discourage you, as I'm sure porting PCRE to z/OS is a fine idea, but > it would not be true to say that regex processing is not available for COBOL > (or PL/I) on z/OS. I was looking through the IBM XL C/C++ for z/OS Run-Time > Library Reference the other day (god knows why, since I don't even have > access to XL C/C++) and noticed that there were some regular expression > features. > > So I just took about 30 minutes and came up with this COBOL program (based on > C code found here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085083/regular-expressions-in-c-examples): > <snip> -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
