[Info-vax] OpenVMS - DCL - Data entry filtering

[hb]

On 03/26/2015 10:57 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> This while waiting for regular expression support, either via lexicals
> or (preferably) integrated into the syntax of the language something
> like this:

With 8.3 you get
$ foo = "abc123"
$ write sys$output f$match_wild(foo,"abc*")
TRUE
$ write sys$output f$match_wild(foo,"*c%2%")
TRUE
$

There is not much documention for this lexical only a "pattern" is 
mentioned, From the examples it is very likely less powerful than 
regular expression matching.