I'm not sure which code page. They dropped TSPF decades ago; otherwise I would have been cheerfully buying upgrades.
Yes, I consider back references essential, and I certainly exploit them in TSPF and Perl scripts. I don't understand why ISPF regexen are so limited. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2021 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:22:49 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >You can have my copy of Tritus SPF (TSPF) when they pry it out of my cold dead >fingers. EBCDIC, Hex. Really close compatibility to ISPF DM and ISPF/PDF EDIT. > Which EBCDIIC? 1047? 500? 037? 037-2? 880? Others? All> > ... The regex syntax is somewhat klunky and minimal, but still quite useful. > Wouldn't it be nice if ISPF Edit Change regex supported "back reference"? <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-sed-start-sed-noninteractive-stream-editor> >Has anybody looked at BRIEF? THE? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
