One could enter an IBM “Idea” for that I suppose, but I do not think that the
underlying C library regex routines support those features, so it might be a
heavy ask.
Peter
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Seymour J Metz
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Subject: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?
Has anybody submitted ISPF requirements for IEDIT CHANGE to support regexen
beyond what POSIX requires? E.g.,
\b word boundary
\d digit, equivalent to [0-9]
backreferencing
named captures
PCRE
referring to captures in replacement string
Unicode character classes
In particular, make it easy to do something like
C R'/bR(\d+)\b' R'\($1\)'
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