On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 7:21 PM Steven D'Aprano
> There's a middle ground of text parsing tasks that would seem to be a good
> match for some sort of scanner, inspired by C's scanf, whether it uses % or
> {} format codes.
>
Maybe COBOL PICTURE clauses.
Admittedly, I've never used COBOL, but I thought that one feature looks
really good.
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