Just an interesting mail thread from a mainframe Rexx mailing list. Are there any ongoing projects in this area? I seem to remember that Rick started to work on a regular expression package with name captures, and independently, Erich mentioned to make the regular expression features of the latest C++ standard available (not sure whether there would be something like name captures available).
There was an idea of incorporating such a feature also into the PARSE keyword statement, if some (human-oriented) easy syntax would be suggested for it (which is dependent on the feature-set implemented in such an extension library, of course, so a little bit of a chicken-egg problem there). ---rony -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: PCRE2 10.35 for z/OS Date: 7 Jun 2020 07:05:37 -0700 From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> Reply-To: TSO REXX Discussion List <tso-r...@vm.marist.edu> Organization: None Newsgroups: bit.listserv.tsorexx References: <1271218775.429747.1591498456491....@mail.yahoo.com> <1271218775.429747.1591498456...@mail.yahoo.com> <bl0pr05mb5156c5ee0273a84de9f867f599...@bl0pr05mb5156.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> On 2020-06-07, at 04:56:19, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > For those not familiar with Perl, its regex syntax includes named captures, > which properly used can make it much easier to write maintainable code. PCRE > is much more powerful the the regexen in, e.g., oorexx. > Ooh! Sorta like SNOBOL4! Does the Rexx API provide named captures to Rexx variables (another case of quoting symbol names?) > ________________________________________ > From: Ze'ev Atlas > Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 10:54 PM > > Hi AllI would like to encourage all of you to use the PCRE2 library with the > new and improved Rexx API. In some previous conversation somebody had > mentioned the package (in a previous release and much more primitive state, > and pointed to some issues. The current release is an up to date version > and, basically, perfected the Rexx API. Again. please try it.As opposed to > other mentioned products which are not Perl compatible, this one is Perl > Compatible and Perl has the golden standard of Regular Expression usage. > Ze'ev Atlas -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For TSO-REXX subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO TSO-REXX _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
