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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Robert Prins
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 11:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - version 0.1 beta
>From a posting on the forum of "that" system:
<quote>
I've ported the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) to native z/OS (no
USS [Unix Servicses], just good ol' native z/OS), including COBOL API. The
installation file is available on:
http://www.zaconsultants.net on the downloads page.
The concept of Regular Expressions is new for most COBOL and PL/I programmers
on the z/OS platform, but is old news for Unix and Linux programmers. Regular
Expressions is a technology that allows finding patterns in text strings in
ways that are not currently available in COBOL, PL/I or even Rexx.
The power of regular expressions is widely used by Java, VB.net, C#, PHP and
Perl, to mention some of the most popular languages. The package that I've
ported is the same one that is used by PHP and is highly compatible with Perl
which is the standard setter for that stuff. In other words, I brought the most
advanced form of Regular Expressions into the COBOL, PL/I and z/OS world.
I hope that the availability of PCRE would encourage all z/OS COBOL and PL/I
programmers to learn about regular expressions and utilize this port. The
license is BSD which pretty much allows use and even resell software based on
it with very few real limitations.
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We are working to introduce PCRE to PL/I for MVS, z/VM and Rexx, but COBOL and
PL/I enterprise seem to be working fins
The files should also be available on CBTTTAPE.ORG and some other mirror site.
ZA</quote>
Robert
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[email protected]
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