In <caajsdjgzb_vpkhqngvr3_j7vu9yvof3bjqhojhk25sfjypd...@mail.gmail.com>, on 07/08/2013 at 11:00 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> said:
>But that is not possible. So I'm wondering what syntax should be >used? I can think of two possibilities. There's a third easy possibility, but Ze'ev seems to want a permanent LE environment as well, which makes things much more difficult for all three. >The easier to implement would be something like: >CALL *(REXXPCRE) 'PCRE VARTOPARSE MATCH1 MATCH2 ' That by itself doesn't allow for named captures, although a variation of it would. >The more difficult, but "REXXier" way would be to do like SDSF does, >or z/OS UNIX and set up an ADDRESS PCRE environment. But I would >then need to figure out the syntax of the PCRE environment commands. More precisely, you would need to design a syntax that is easy to use and easy to parse. But you need to do that for all three approaches. A third way is for the wrapper to be a REXX-aware procedure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN