In
<of46a61f33.3d28353f-onc1257673.0052707b-c1257673.00538...@deutscherring.de>,
on 11/19/2009
at 04:12 PM, Michael Klaeschen <[email protected]>
said:
>Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common
>amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have
>other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular
>expressions.
Would that that were true. One of the reasons that I use Perl as much as I
do is that REXX does not have reasonable parsing facilities, although REXX
is better at parsing columnar data.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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