Unfortunately, I am not that versed in Perl and/or C so I could not really patch Perl itself. EBCDIC support in PCRE was introduced by somebody else before I'd touched it. However, it works and Philip corrected few things that were not up-to-date.
Ricardo, I am tempted to suggest that it would be much easier to adapt Data-Rx-Type-PCRE-0.003 that you are involved with (or perhaps re-engine-PCRE-0.17) to work on z/OS and with my adaptation of PCRE for z/OS. While I ported the PCRE to native z/OS in order to interface it with good ol' COBOL, it should not be a big deal to adapt that back to USS (z/OS Unix Services). I would assume that adapting Data-Rx-Type-PCRE-0.003 should not be a big deal either and they should be able to work together. That would bring us an up-to-date EBCDIC support. I am willing to work with you on such a project. Ze'ev Atlas ________________________________ From: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> To: Ze'ev Atlas <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 8:43 PM Subject: Re: EBCDIC support is on the chopping block * Ze'ev Atlas <[email protected]> [2013-02-06T20:30:40] > The PCRE library supports EBCDIC quite well and was ported to native z/OS. > There should be no reason why Perl could not do it. Great! When can we expect your patches? -- rjbs
