On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:
> In > <CAAJSdji9qxQt85zt2ckxN_E=tck6ctf0oaxyr5ffd7hnjfq...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 06/13/2015 > at 09:51 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> said: > > >ooRexx was an option, > > For a simple report, yes, but I keep running into situations when I > want regexen, modules from CPAN or both. Is there an OOREXX intergace > to PCRE or equivaelent? Can it handle named cptures? > ooRexx has a RegularExpression class, but as best as I can tell, it implements the regexp routines from the C runtime (GCC in my case). These are extended regular expressions, but not PCRE. More like what egrep has. All that you mentioned are reasons why I tend to use Perl in preference to ooRexx on Linux. > > -- > 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. If someone tell you that nothing is impossible: Ask him to dribble a football. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
