Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-23 Thread John P. Hartmann
Surely locate 1.5 /a_b c/ does what you want and it won't tax you to learn anything new. On 8/23/19 00:38, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: On 2019-08-22 12:03 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: Wouldn't PICK 1+ == /abc/ do what you ask for? If I learned (and remembered) newfangled syntaxes like

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 00:47, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > On 2019-08-22 1:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > The general and correct wish should be for an escape character to protect > > any character, even itself, from any special meaning, even as '"' does in > > a CP LINEDIT environment. > When

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 00:38, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > On 2019-08-22 12:03 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > Wouldn't PICK 1+ == /abc/ do what you ask for? > > If I learned (and remembered) newfangled syntaxes like "1+", sure! > For ASIS, at least > Any less-than-obvious syntax is due to a

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On 2019-08-22 1:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > The general and correct wish should be for an escape character to protect > any character, even itself, from any special meaning, even as '"' does in > a CP LINEDIT environment. That could be more than just a matter of syntax for FIND. I don't know i

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On 2019-08-22 12:03 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Wouldn't PICK 1+ == /abc/ do what you ask for? If I learned (and remembered) newfangled syntaxes like "1+", sure! For ASIS, at least. ¬R

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2019-08-22, at 09:59:51, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > > Tiny convenience wishlist item, after being bitten by this repeatedly > this morning: STRFIND ASIS to find a string without translating > underscores and skipping blanks, so the same target can be good for > STRFIND and STRTOLABEL. > > A s

Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 18:00, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > Tiny convenience wishlist item, after being bitten by this repeatedly > this morning: STRFIND ASIS to find a string without translating > underscores and skipping blanks, so the same target can be good for > STRFIND and STRTOLABEL. > > A

[CMS-PIPELINES] wishlist: STRFIND ASIS

2019-08-22 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
Tiny convenience wishlist item, after being bitten by this repeatedly this morning: STRFIND ASIS to find a string without translating underscores and skipping blanks, so the same target can be good for STRFIND and STRTOLABEL. A slightly less tiny item would be options for which characters to skip