[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On 9 Jan 2024 23:57:19 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:57 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 9 Jan 2024 08:49:07 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>> 
>>> But at that point I use other labguages.
>> 
>> Which I have done. But, you know, it turns out bash has one or two more
>> useful capabilities up its sleeve than you might give it credit for.
> 
> Oh, I've examined the documentation (and books) in detail. But by that
> time, I'd been using REXX for years, and it does all I need. It's
> surprisingly powerful.

I had a look at the Wikipedia overview
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx>, and I see it gushes a lot over the 
PARSE statement, but it doesn’t seem to have regular expressions. Is that 
overview out of date?