Um... never mind, I see they're quite close together in the text.
On 2018-04-27 04:55:42 Rick McGuire wrote:
> These are defined in Chapter 9.3 of the Object Rexx reference. The length
> positional patterns work the way many people expect + and - to work,
> particularly with backward movement. Consider the following two templates.
>
> var = "This is a test"
> parse var var "is" -2 value -- value is set to "s is a test"
>
> parse var var "is" <2 value -- value is set to "s ", the two characters
> preceding the last match.
>
> Many people expect -2 to work that way and are surprised to see that it
> picks up the remainder of the string. If I had a nickle for every time I've
> had to explain why it worked that way... Or every worse, had to deal with a
> bug report from someone convinced that was actually a bug.
>
> Rick
Maybe a link to 9.3 in the text after example 9.16 would be helpful in
reducing confusion.
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