Well, I ported PCRE to classic z/OS as well (with coherent COBOL API) Ze'ev
Atlas
From: Brent Longborough <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 17 Mar 2015 to 21 Mar 2015 (#2015-34)
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:
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. Announcing API copybooks between COBOL and the POSIX compliant regular
> expression standard functions
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> 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
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> 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
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