z/OS has Regex in
ISPF 2.01
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.f54em00/useofr1.htm
Awk
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa400/bpxug444.htm
Shells
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/regexpa.htm
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
> Gil wrote:
>
>>I call that weakness a tie with lack of regular expressions. There's a
> similar
>>bias in the IBM community to consider regexen Bad.
>
>
>
> Well, we could have a whole 'nother thread on whether regex are A Good Thing
> or not ("now you have two problems" and all that), but actually there was at
> least one regex implementation for Rexx, as a function package, so it sort
> of winds up being (arguably!) the same point.
>
>
>
> David Crayford complained about Rexx being typeless and lacking lexical
> scoping. These are considered strengths by some of us. And PROCEDURE gives
> you lexical scoping of a sort, no?
>
>
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