[Info-vax] A SYS$ version of F$EDIT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/2/2019 6:49 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 10:57:20 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2019-06-02 15:29:08 +0000, Arne Vajh  j said:
>>> And in C:
>>
>> FWIW...
>>
>> This hasn't been the first time that f$edit and the BASIC
>> string-editing capabilities have been discussed around here.
>>
>> There are additional examples of BAS$EDIT and DBASIC$EDIT calls posted
>> in the newsgroup archives, as well...
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/IDx1trJeHy0/Y5Y0vLfB9h0J
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/0GE34MwGJ4Q/wR_Q2UtN2wsJ
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/A9ZP0o0mP_k/z0BmepRKaVIJ
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/BiXWxuKXlLk/oxatxhxPlOQJ

> True and despite the claims of "most" of the functionality being in DBASIC$EDIT and STR$ routines, it's not exactly "all" or at least not exactly all obvious.

DBASIC$EDIT is missing LOWERCASE and UNCOMMENT.

> There is a consistency issue as well. Been a while since I researched it, but every other F$ had a SYS$ at the time.

????

F$INTEGER, F$STRING, F$LENGTH, F$LOCATE, F$EXTRACT, F$CVSI, F$CVUI, 
F$ELEMENT, F$TYPE etc. should not hit a system service.

Arne