Jim,
if I understand correctly you want to do pattern matching ("regular
expressions") against some strings that your program extracts from some
dataset?
If you can use C as programming language then there is a string function
call fnmatch() that provides pattern matching as in Unix shell commands for
filenames (*, %, [] things ...) - or of course the regex functionality
(which is more complex). For the fnmatch function I wrote a rexx function
which is a simple wrapper for the C library - if you are interested in that,
contact me off-list.
regards
Wolfgang
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I really think I'm trying to make this more complicated than it is, but
Barry's
idea wasn't what I was looking for either. I'm not looking for a listing
of the
incoming datasets for any other reason than to know what to print out each
day. The print I'm looking for is the internals of all the incoming
datasets
which is a sysout of a job run. There's got to be an easier way out
there.
Thanks for all the different ideas, but in my mind we haven't got there
yet.
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