On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:07:53 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote:
>In <[email protected]>, on >02/24/2015 > at 03:32 PM, Govind Chettiar <[email protected]> said: > >>On zOS if I try >>f r'([0-9]{4})(\w+)' > >A while back I looked at the new ISPF documentation and and EDIT is >missing much of what I have come to rely on in Perl. > >>I looked online for how to search on words (which is what \w does) > >No. > >>f r'[:alpha:]' > >If it doesn't even support /d and /w, why would you expect it to >support fancy character classes? > >Is there an open requirement to support full regex capability? > >-- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN I don't know about open requirements. All I was trying to do was replicate what I can do in SublimeText. Anyway, I do have RDz and the Cobol editor supplied with that provides full support (tho the JCL and other editors don't). It does seem irksome that a feature would be provided in a half-baked fashion especially when it has taken so long to become available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
