Hehheh, yeah thats about the same reaction I had to Pattern when I first encountered it. I never quite "got" SNOBOL, which Pattern seems to share some heritage with. -- bc
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, James Vincent <[email protected]>wrote: > My head exploded. I did have PIPSYSF and looked at patterns. Wow - way > powerful but for the quick and casual needs, it is close to learning > neurosurgery to remove a splinter! > > I came up with: pattern (to("33."):out out("32G") len(5) or rem:out)* > rpos(0) > > If anyone sees that I could do it easier, better, faster than that please > let me know! > > > -- James Vincent > -- Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer, Nationwide Ins. > -- V.P. & Director of Conference Operations, SHARE Inc. > -- Calendar: http://www.tinyurl.com/JSVCalendar > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Bob Cronin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > See http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/pipsysf.html and red up on "pattern", > > perhaps. > > -- > > bc > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, James Vincent < > > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of a way to make changes to arbitrary strings? For > > > instance, I want to change any "33.%%" to "32G" where the %% could be > > > anything. > > > > > > I've dug around a little and I nothing has jumped out at me yet. As I > > keep > > > looking I thought I would ask this list too. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- James Vincent > > > -- Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer, Nationwide Ins. > > > -- V.P. & Director of Conference Operations, SHARE Inc. > > > -- Calendar: http://www.tinyurl.com/JSVCalendar > > > > > >
