> > Hehe smile I gave COBOL a little try, but it now it seems a lot more of a 
> > nightmare to do it right (from what I gathered, not only the official 
> > syntax uses a pretty random notation, but it also seem close to impossible 
> > to parse without knowing every single bit of it -- e.g. it's not easy to 
> > locate "statements" or alike). But well… I'll still try and find a way.

> If you really insist on having this fun, couldn't you just use the 
> readLineFromInputFile() ctags interface and more or less only simulate the 
> regex expressions from the existing regex parser (without actually having to 
> learn how the language looks like)?

Or just use glib regex and use the regexen from the ctags Cobol modified as 
needed for glib?

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