On Dec 5, 2008, at 08:25, Dave Jones wrote:
Very good point, Glenn. I had completely forgotten about those
stages.....
Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:22:37 -0600, Dave Jones wrote:
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.
Releasing the E/F/GREP stages would go considerably further toward
that
end . . .
The Unix weenies are apt to complain if their regular
expression skills are not portable. I'll join them
if those stages, when released, require me to memorize
alternatives for '[' and ']', for example.
Do the elusive *GREP stages send unmatched lines to
secondary output connectors?
-- gil
