There seem to be a number of people currently making outrageous
suggestions about missing features or how FPC could best be repackaged
and promoted, so since it's the season of good will I trust that folk
will tolerate this one from me.
There's been a recent thread in fpc-other on second languages, but it
appeared to focus more on what was a useful part of a developer's
skillset rather than what people miss from Pascal.
What /I/ miss is Perl's pattern matching, and I miss it to the extent
that in some of my own scripting stuff I've implemented it myself:
IF cells[2, dateTime] = /(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/((\d\d)?\d\d)\s.*/i THEN BEGIN
cells[6, 1]:= /1/ + ordinalSuffix(/1/);
cells[7, 1]:= monthName(/2/);
IF /3/ > 999 THEN
cells[8, 1]:= /3/
ELSE
cells[8, 1]:= '20' + /3/
END;
I knew nobody'd like it- I'll get my coat.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, everybody :-)
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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