[Replying again from my work account since my Google Groups reply did not make it to the list - I forgot that is a one-way gateway]
Based on a brief review, this text of the pcre man pages says yes to all of those: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt Though not, of course, the Perl-only pattern features that interpret Perl code dynamically. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS In <7859492443392344.wa.zatlas1yahoo....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 07/03/2013 at 05:58 PM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <zatl...@yahoo.com> said: >In any case, PCRE is mature and working library with most all (even >esoteric) options. Branch reset? Conditional patterns? Named backreferences? Recursive patterns? -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
