"Regular expressions (string, string1)" in z/OS ISPF Edit and Edit Macros, SC19-3621-00 has descriptions of "+", "*" and "?" containing the phrase "of the previous character"; that is very different from their usual meaning and leaves open the question of what happens if I write, e.g., "(subpattern)*". Is the text correct, or do those characters actually operate on the previous subpattern, as in, e.g., Perl? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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