True. But RE aren't even standardized across platforms, making them very difficult to use in multi-platform product code.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:34 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2020-02-25 9:14 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > "regular expressions". What a misnamed item. It should be called "geek > > readable only expressions". :-) > > > Not when your learn how to use them! REXX parse templates are very > powerful but can't come close to RE for lots of uses cases. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
