Re: Bulk source search ignoring commented-out code (iSphere special?)

Thank you for the clarification. I should have clicked the link at the
end of Buck's posting.

I ended up reading when I read "Pearl", because I immediately asked
myself weather it is possible to call Perl from RPG and get a result back.

If I had clicked the link I would have noticed the following sentence,
which looks promising, earlier:

"A PCRE port for z/OS, a mainframe operating system which uses EBCDIC as
its default character encoding, can be found here"

Thomas.

Am 29.06.2015 um 21:38 schrieb John Yeung:

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Tools/400 <thomas.raddatz-a9TbBav64t4b1SvskN2V4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is it possible to call Perl from RPG? I have to call the regex function
for each line of a source member!

Well, there is probably *some* way to call Perl from RPG, but Buck's
suggestion doesn't really have anything to do with Perl.

PCRE is a C library which implements regular expressions *similar* to
Perl's. Actually, even though "PCRE" stands for "Perl Compatible
Regular Expressions", there are some differences between PCRE regexes
and Perl regexes.

But the suggestion is basically to take the source code of PCRE and
build the library yourself, possibly making modifications to suit your
needs or to accommodate quirks of the IBM i platform.

John Y.