On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:56:20 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:52:42 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:03:59 -0500, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>But when we issue a pattern matching (I'll use Perl syntax for brevity) 
>>>if ($text =~ /some text \n/)
>>>the \n is translated by convention to LF and the EBCDIC based pattern 
>>>matching will fail to match!
>>>
>>
>>why not this?
>>if ($text =~ /some text $/)
>> 
>That's a circumvention, not a solution to the problem.  But my question 
>remains,
>by what "convention" in the z/OS EBCDIC environment is \n translated to LF
>rather than NL?
>

I get identical results whether I use \n or $ in the OP's example. In OMVS.
I'm not addressing your question but rather the OP's example.

Bill

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