Is there a Pipelines idiom to locate only words, instead of strings.
In my case the words can be delimited by special characters, not
just blanks (they are, in fact, variable names in program code).
For example, I'd like to say
'locateword /abc/'
and locate abc=5
i(abc)
1+abc-f
but not abcd=5
i(xabc)
etc.
In my case, underscore is a letter (part of a word) not a special character.
I inherited a mass of code, in fact a whole subsystem, that scans all the
files on all minidisks and directories on a large system for requested
strings. When run against code, looking for variable names, if gets far too
many hits. I cannot afford to really redesign the system, I'd just like to
replace
locate /abc/
with
locateword /abc/
A REXX stage would probably slow the system down too much, unless it was
just a CALLPIPE.
Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
