I knocked up a REXX regex package using ECMAScript grammer, which is
almost identical to PCRE with a few subtle differences. I wish the C++
TR1 regex library supported perl syntax like boost::regex.
I can't ship the source as it contains code which may be considered IP
at a later date but I don't mind shipping binaries if anybody is
interested http://users.tpg.com.au/crayford/rexxre.txt.
On 3/07/2013 8:35 PM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
Hi All
Of all places, I would expect a little more enthusiasm of the members of this
list.
Let me please explain the rationale behind publishing the PCRE library on z/OS.
Regular expressions are available in most modern languages such as Perl, Java
and PHP, to mention only few (BTW, PHP is using the PCRE library for regular
expressions processing.) Regular expressions are used extensively and are
basic part of life in programming and handling data on Linux, Unix (and by
extension on z/OS with USS and MVS-OE) and Windows.
This capability was virtually unavailable on native z/OS and not at all for
grand old COBOL and PL/I. By porting this library, i brought this awesome
capability into the native z/OS realm and into the LE languages functionality.
And thus. I pulled COBOL and PL/I kicking and screaming to the 21st century.
Rexx on z/OS is an untamed beast and I do not know how to approach it. We
really need volunteers for that aspect.
Object Rexx (on non z/OS platform) appears to be catching up with that trend and lately added a RxRegExp library. I did not yet have a chance to look at it yet, but I know that there was a Posix compliant library available for non z/OS Rexx for some time.
While the package in full is available on my website in both ASCII form and
EBCDIC XMIT libraries, all you really need may be the XMIT libraries, the
documentation and the license document. There is one XMIT library missing (the
test cases) but I hope to add it soon and it is not crucial for working with
the library.
I had a rough start some months ago when I first published the package (PCRE
8.31) but this was my first time publishing open source on serious scale. The
current package is stable and available.
ZA
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