On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:38:30 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>>Isn't PCRE written in C? > >>Yes, and that's why I had to provide binaries which is NOT ideal, >>because the binaries are IBM1047 specific > >What prevents you from testing the locale? Also, isn't gcc available >for z/OS? > So the programmer codes in a regex /[abc]/, where '[' and ']' are radically locale-sensitive. Must PCRE query the locale to suss out what '[' means, or translate all input and output to a canonical character set? This would be a massive source change, unlikely to be accepted back into the mainstream source tree (cf. Python).
Making gcc a prerequisite might be onerous. And to my knowledge all z/OS ports of gcc are biased toward legacy data sets and against UNIX files, which I regard as a flaw. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
