On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:12 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > > ... writing a REXX that read the raw firewall extract and created a CSV in > about 20 seconds. REXX makes ~very~ short work of parsing. At the time I > don’t think I knew VBScript, but it surely would have been harder. > For that sort of thing, I generally rely on "awk". PARSE and regex have considerable overlap.
> ... Again, I see REXX's most valuable strength as parsing strings. > Occasionally that strength is valuable outside TSO. > I nominate ADDRESS SYSCALL and ADDRESS ISREDIT. What other languages are comparable? OK. The SYSCALL functions are mostly in C RTL, and ISREDIT commands callable from HLASM, C, COBOL, ... but harder. Now that ISPF Edit has regex, it would be precious if it suupported back-references. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
