On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:35:27 +0000, Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>The DFSORT manual (and others) should not attempt to explain regular >>>expressions. They should defer to citing a single publication with such an >>>explanation. > >I completely agree, however each component within IBM is implementing a >regular expression flavor. Different regular expression flavors are not fully >compatible with each other. So it is difficult to have 1 central publication. Perhaps, if you're implementing a specific, standard reg-ex flavor (e.g., PERL, or PCRE, or one of the Boost libraries) you could consider just pointing to the standard documentation. You would then only need to document exceptions to the standard behavior. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
