On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:18:19 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >This 'problem', if that is the right word for it, is trivial in >any---well, almost any---programming language. > >The OP, like many others here, does not appear to want or even to have >considered writing a programmed resolution of his problem. He wants >to use sort control statements instead. He can certainly do so too, >but why? > "If one's accustomed tool is a hammer ..."
Change control procedures may be stricter for programs than for utility control statements, but why? I've heard this as an argument for resisting classification of JCL as a programming language. There's a fuzzy line between a program in an interpretive language and control statements for a utility. In particular, sed straddles that line. My first concern in using a language for a stream-oriented filesystem is whether the data contain binary fields that might be mistaken for line separators. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
