For personal stuff I have TSPF, which does allow the replacement string to have referbacks. For work I have a locked-down laptop and am only allowed to install what the IRS supports.
Does the IBM Open Editor for Z allow using refer-backs in replacements? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of salva Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2025 3:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements? External Message: Use Caution 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 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
