What is a platform? Perl Regexen aren't the same as Python regexen, but Perl regexen are the same on every platform, the Python refexen are the same on every platform, etc.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of zMan <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
