NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/lang/rexx/913

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From: [e-mail] (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:29:25 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of 7 Sep 92 00:53:16 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Gomberg) writes:

   I certainly did not understand what you meant correctly.  I thot that
   a shouldn't match b or c to mean a shouldn't match b and a shouldn't
   match c.   If I understand what you meant, you meant a shouldn't
   match b or else a shouldn't match c.  If the latter is what you mean,
   I just don't understand your point, so I cannot agree or disagree with
   it.  Perhaps you could restate it??   Dave

sure: the position operator should match the true characters: pos("a b"...)
should hit on the substring "a<blank>b" in the target, not on the
substring "a<tab>b".
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Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/[e-mail]/(ne [e-mail])
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/[phone]
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