On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:29:08 +0000, Farley, Peterrote:

>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.
> 
Might sed- like numbered captures be a lighter ask?

Or, empower ISPF to invoke vim as an alternate editor.


>From:  Seymour J Metz
>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 2:23 PM
>
>Has abybody 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'\($1\)'

-- 
gil

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