I don't like any RE syntax that derives from Eunix, but it's too powerful to ignore, especially the flavors that have named captures. Unless I'm compelkled toi use something with POSIX syntax, I stick to more powerful versions.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)] (This thread should move to comp.lang.advocacy.) On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 16:40:08 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >OK, I'll bite: What is BSF please? I do know of PCRE (though I really do not >like the Perl RE syntax, I prefer Posix/gawk RE syntax) but BSF is a new >acronym to me. > I try to keep my skill set portable. I avoid Bash-isms, {g|n}awk, ... Now that you say PCRE is different, my interest in it is diminished. It seems to me that many users of {g|n}awk learned a primitive awk lacking many features such as tolowerr(), touppor(), the "in" operator, ... now assimilated in POSIX awk. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
