Perhaps there is a way to use another codepage. It's been a while since I wrote the program and did my testing. Specifying codepage(1047) makes it work and I haven't looked any further.
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL. On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 18:29:31 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I have been successful in invoking the following "regular expression" >functions from the z/OS XL C/C++ Runtime Library: regcomp(), regexec and >regfree(). > > >Just to see if I could do it. Not to actually use for anything useful. > > >One thing it does require is the use of codepage(1047), because of the use of >brackets ([]). > Strange. I thought I saw in doc somewhere a list of numerous supported code pages. But perhaps that was only in ISPF Edit doc. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN