[Info-vax] DCL and scripting

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-12, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/2018 9:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/11/2018 3:11 PM, Jairo Alves wrote:
>>>> F$REGEX_MATCH would not be that difficult.
>>>
>>> Suggestion:
>>>
>>>   F$REGEX(input_string, regex_query, output_rule, modifiers)
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> $ str = "11-DEC-2018 17:24"
>>> $ str = F$REGEX(str, "(\d{2})-(\w+)-(\d{4})", -
>>>                  "$3_$2_$1", "UNGREEDY,CASE_INSENSITIVE")
>>>
>>> $ wr sys$output str
>>> "2018_DEC_11"
>>
>> I think this is really F$REGEX_REPLACE.
>
> Not casting a handful of mud and such at anyone, but that is ugly, and 
> at least for me giberish.  I don't want to even try to understand it.
>

$ set response/mode=good_natured

Nice to see you are as predictable as always. :-)

I wondered what you would say when you saw the above example of a regex. :-)

However, once you get used to them, a regex is a _very_ powerful
pattern matching tool and I don't have any problems understanding
what the above example is trying to say.

Simon.

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