[Info-vax] DCL and scripting

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 2:15:41 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/11/2018 1:42 PM, Jairo Alves wrote:
> >> DCL design and design compromises also skew heavily toward interactive
> >> command input, and away from scripting and away from system and data
> >> access features.  Away from modern string handling, too; no regex, no
> > 
> > Couldn't regex be added as a lexical function?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> F$REGEX_MATCH would not be that difficult.
> 
> Arne

Besides the "match"/"nomatch" result, I assume you'd also like capturing syntax like you see in Perl regex strings?  (aka \1 and $1)  

The biggest obstacle in shoving a regex into the middle of DCL is making sure the license is suitable.  For instance, we can't/won't put a piece of GPL code into DCL.EXE.