Back-references are certainly essential, but for complicated expressions assertions, named captures, etc., make life easier.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers On Feb 22, 2022, at 10:15:21, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> I like REXX a lot and I find it to be very adept at parsing information, > > I'm a REXX bigot, but when it comes to parsing there are better languages, > e.g., Icon, Perl. It would be nice if TSO/E would pick up PCRE and RexxLA > would upgrade the RegularExpression class to equivalent functionality for > OOREXX. > I'd be reasonably satisfied with POSIX ERE and back-references optionally assigned to Rexx variables. -- gil
