Moderately good news. I suppose that POSIX-compatible REs are an astounding luxury for the world of COBOL, but it's rather disappointing to suspect that IBM hasn't yet discovered PCREs, or, worse, doesn't care. Brent L
On 2015-03-22 04:00, ASSEMBLER-LIST automatic digest system wrote: > There is 1 message totaling 21 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Announcing API copybooks between COBOL and the POSIX compliant regular > expression standard functions > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:54:56 +0000 > From: Ze'ev Atlas <[email protected]> > Subject: Announcing API copybooks between COBOL and the POSIX compliant > regular expression standard functions > > IBM provides standard POSIX compliant regular expression functions that are > available both for classic z/OS and UNIX. Similarly, such services are > available in all POSIX compliant Linux implementations. > I gave developed a set of COPYBOOKS that provide standard API between COBOL > and those services. My demo program compiles on IBM Enterprise COBOL 5.1 and > demonstrates the use under classic z/OS. > I attempted to create similar copybooks to use with GNU COBOL under Linux, > but there appears to be a bug in GNU COBOL call sequence. The GNU COBOL team > is aware about the situation and will try to fix the issue. > The package is available on CBTTAPE, file 928 as well as on my website > (zaconsultants.net) Ze'ev Atlas > > ------------------------------ > > End of ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 17 Mar 2015 to 21 Mar 2015 (#2015-34) > ******************************************************************** >
