On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:06:27 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: > ... >IMHO no “programmer option” is needed – If you code a BRE as the RE then >that’s what you’ll execute, if you code an ERE then that is what you’ll >execute. ISTM that it's up to the underlying RE compiler to determine the >syntax in use. > It's impossible for the compiler to make that distinction. For that reason, utilities such as sed: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/sv/zos/3.1.0?topic=descriptions-sed-start-sed-noninteractive-stream-editor> -E Uses extended regular expressions. Normally, sed uses basic regular expressions.
and grep: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=descriptions-grep-search-file-specified-pattern> -E Matches by using extended regular expressions (causes grep to behave like egrep). have the "-E" option to indicate the programmer's intent. DFSORT needs a similar option. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
