Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
PARSE is very powerful and I think I do keyword parsing in a simple manner. A few more keystrokes than CLIST, but not many more.
In CLIST, it is ZERO keystrokes. The parsing is done by TSO/E before the CLIST gets control.
I might point out I do things in REXX that mere mortals will never accomplish AND I will also wonder how people do some of what they do.
I'm an assembler language programmer by trade. I'm proficient with REXX. But, I would not call myself anything more than a mere mortal.
I would very much like to see a generalized, callable REXX external function that does *full* IKJPARS emulation in fewer lines than my behemoth. The positional parameters are relatively easy. (Don't forget to prompt if they're not there!) But, keywords are much tougher. For example, only the minimum number of chars to make the keyword identifiable need be specified by the caller. (I spent 1/2 page of code on that requirement alone).
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