RE: Locales and regular expressions

This is one of the places where activation groups can help you. When a new activation group is created it's locale is set from QLOCALE which, hopefully, is EN_US which is what you need. If not, use setlocale() to make it so. Apparently using the setlocale() function before the regex functions resets the locale for everything in the activation group. So run your regex routines in their own named activation group and use setlocale to set the locale to EN_US before running regexcomp or regexec.

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/c1a90c4ee5dd1a6686257a3a00591304?OpenDocument


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S Waterbury
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:53 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Locales and regular expressions

Hi, Tim:

What CCSID is the job running in?

Perhaps you could do something like this, in a CL "wrapper" ...
...
RTVJOBA CCSID(&CCSID)
CHGJOB JOB(*) CCSID(37) /* set to CCSID 37 temporarily */
CALL your-program-that-does-the-regex-stuff
CHGJOB JOB(*) CCSID(&CCSID) /* restore previous CCSID */
...

Perhaps you can run a quick experiment to see if that might help?

Mark S. Waterbury

On 3/22/2013 10:24 AM, Tim Bronski wrote:
I've cross posted this to the C list but it doesn't get much traffic
so this question might get more of an audience here. I've been having
issues with using regular expressions (as in a sscanf function) where
the locale might vary. I've looked all over the ibm site but there's
very little with any definition on exactly what effect locales have on
expression statements. How do I locale protect my expressions?

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