> That's not cheating;
Of course it is cheating; it's not a faithful representation of the original
program, and it may even break the code.
> On LISTSERV WWW, 'C2AC'.
I have no idea where the C2 is coming from; the AC is correct.
> In Regina Ref.:
Try each of AA and AC on both OOREXX and Regina.
This insanity inspired me to writ a TRYNOT script:
/* Test whether REXX recognizes all of the logical not characters */
Nots = '\' 'aa'x 'ac'x
do 3
parse var Nots Not Nots
say 'Trying' Not c2x(Not)
interpret 'compare = a' Not'= b'
say Not 'recognized'
end
It's a throwaway; otherwise I would have intercepted the error and written my
own message.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression
On Sun, 30 May 2021 01:03:04 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> I hate EBCDIC issue, it's a multiple code page set issue!. Pop quiz: when
>> using REXX on a PC, is � 'AA'X or 'AC'X? And, yes, you can cheat and use \
>
That's not cheating; it's USASCII. Porrtable.
>... so you don't have to care which code page and which interpreter, but why
>should you have to? And what if you want to download exist REXX code from,
>e.g., z/OS, zVM?
>
In your email I see:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
...is =AC...
On LISTSERV WWW, 'C2AC'.
In Regina Ref.:
2.5.4.1 Negators
Some of the above comparisons can be negated by prefixing a
negator character. Regina supports the following characters as negators:
\ Backslash (ANSI Standard)
^ Caret
~ Tilde
¬ Logical Not
Again, 'C2AC'x. And when I paste it into a script I get a syntax error:
Error 13 running "/proc/4320/fd/pipe:[95168888]", line 1: Invalid character in
program
Error 13.1: Invalid character in program "('c2'X)"
-- gil
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