On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:24:15 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>There are three distinct languages associated with ISPF EDIT
> ...
> The commands for the ISREDIT environment.
>
In a Rexx macro, I've done such as
PARM='"Hello," says O''Reilly.'
address ISREDIT 'LINE AFTER' N '= (PARM)'
... where the parentheses denote reference to a Rexx variable.
The variable value is treated as plain text; meta characters are
not recognized. Extremely useful for inserting lines read from
an external source.
Does the same work for CHANGE, as in
address ISREDIT 'CHANGE' <regular-expression> '(PARM)'
How do I specify the regex, which may contain ISPF delimiters?
Am I expecting too much orthogonality?
The lack of regex back-references is shameful.
>None of them, of course, is a programming language.
>
But Rexx certainly is, and can implement Edit macros.
>________________________________________
>>On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, at 15:05, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>>> Yup. Pet peeve: ISPF Edit has no way of escaping apostrophe, which otheer
>>> IBM languages
>>
>It's repeatedly disputed in this forum whether JCL is a language. Yet JCL has
>a convention
>for escaping the apostrophe: ...,PARM='"Hello," says O''Reilly.'
--
gil
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