My regex REXX API handles advanced captures. https://github.com/daveyc/RTK

> On 12 Apr 2025, at 15:09, salva <sa...@rczero.com> wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, until IBM offers a better regexp approach (especially for
> captures in replacements), I use a quick-and-dirty macro to:
> 
>   -
> 
>   Copy the current edit session to a /tmp file
>   -
> 
>   Call bpxwunix("sed -E '/from/to/g' ifile > ofile") ...
>   -
> 
>   Copy ofile back to the current session edit
> 
> It has a lot of limitations (as does sed), and when it's not enough, my
> next option is to download to Notepad++ via FTP. (Notepad++ can be "easily"
> integrated with z/OS FTP).
> 
> Regards, salva.
> 
>> El vie, 11 abr 2025 a las 20:23, Seymour J Metz (<sme...@gmu.edu>) escribió:
>> 
>> 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'\($1\)'
>> 
>> --
>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
>> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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