Hm, you're causing me to wonder whether my REXX routine worked as well as I thought. That bit about 'Q' appearing multiple times has me doubting; how did I handle that part of the logic?
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. (Other times just because they forgot.) -from "Are You an Engineer?" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 03:33 --- On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:55:22 -0500 Willy Jensen wrote: :>I cannot comment on the PASN<>HASN issue, but I have written an assembler subroutine which is faster than ASAXWC. I also have a REXX subroutine which I use in public domain REXXs where I cannot rely on the user being able or allowed to install an assembler module. I have been thinking about patterns and it looks like it may take several passes. For example, pattern *CD*Q To match ABCDGQCDQ Would take multiple passes Scan for CD, match, scan for Q, match, fail since trailing characters So would need to start again looking for another CD, etc. Or perhaps first scan for another Q? Etc. Logic would seem to chop off the start/end if not masked, and keep looping until either match or no possibility. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
