On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:59 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are being pedantic, but that's ok. > > I have found (from my co-workers especially) that most mainframe people > of a certain vintage are not willing to learn new stuff. > So regular expressions are off the menu when they can write logic to do > the same thing using their language of choice. > Of course, that's totally fine. Old dogs new tricks! RE does take some > learning but it's a case of "I can't be bothered". > I love regex, especially the PCRE. I also use z/OS Unix facilities in my "normal" work. OTOH, my boss is one of the "don't want to bother with that" types. Each to his own. Except that he really doesn't like me to use Unix facilites in any of our "production" environments. The reason is "so that the person coming after you can understand it". Which is weird given the fact that UHG will kill the mainframe soon "come hell or high water". They have enough money to do it too. Anyway, I end up writing a lot of REXX instructions to do what I can do in just a couple of lines of awk or sed. Even the "minimalistic" (anemic) versions of those that IBM distributes. -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
