RE: regexec - chopping a large text string into chunks

["Paul Nicolay" <Paul.Nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

I also found this out some time ago (see other postings regarding
regex), and it should encourage everyone to stay away from it on
iSeries.  Regex is only a valuable function if it would be available in
its most complete form (also see what other systems offer regarding the
"greedy" concept).

Hence for trivial things as splitting a line, one can better write its
own procedure.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: vrijdag 19 september 2008 16:01
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: regexec - chopping a large text string into chunks

Perhaps IBM's biggest crime in this situation is it's HORRIBLE 
documentation.  The docs say NOTHING about what is and is not supported 
in their regcomp() API.  The only thing I can find in the docs is this:

"The functions regcomp(), regerror(), regexec(), and regfree() use 
regular expressions in a similar way to the UNIX(r) awk, ed, grep, and 
egrep commands."