>I think you should abandon the idea of trying to replicate perl syntax. >Perl makes me want to hurl, it's user hostile. I just copied the API >functions >like match, search, replace and implemented a command for each one. >I could and should have added functionality to process an entire stem array >or file for efficiency.
I would not argue about the merits or lack of them thereof of Perl, that's a matter of taste. I wanted to port the PHP implementation of PCRE interface to z/OS, which would translate into few well defined functions, similar to the suggestion above. But that proved to be too big of a task because the source code dependencies went too deep to the core PHP source and I did not want to port PHP to z/OS. If you want to develop such API from scratch (and I suggest you should look into PHP as a model), than by all means, it should work. If we have enough people in the project, than we may re-visit my PHP idea some time. ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
