Dave, I've lost PATTERN's macro library. So I'd not be able to fix anything if it breaks. And while PATTERN is a superset of GREP, there is nothing greppish about SNOBOL.
j. 2008/12/4 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd like to see PATTERN made more available, even in it's (current?) lack of > documentation > state....it would help me rebut the Unix weenies claim that CMS has no > "grep-like" function. > > John P. Hartmann wrote: >> >> And there is also PATTERN. The pattern could be generated from the >> list. And it could do more than look for a leading string. >> Essentially, PATTERN can do anything GREP can do. >> >> But if the list of misspelled domain names is huge, the pattern gets >> huge and slow too. >> >> j. >> >> 2008/12/3 Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Have you considered the WILDCARD stage? >>> >>> Unfortunately it would take a wildcard stage per domain name you want >>> to match. That gets unattractive for a large number of domains. I'm >>> sure I must have suggested the Piper to support variable length >>> keys... ;-) >>> >>> Rob >>> > > -- > DJ > > V/Soft > z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, > consulting, and software development > www.vsoft-software.com >
