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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z NetView
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 18, 2024

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Support square brackets expressions for REXX MATCH() function

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

We need to match system application names containing a small list of characters at a specific position: IM\d[PS]CTL
This would give us the possibility the differ between our 2 production environments and our 5 development environments.

A normal wildcard doesn't cover this requirement

The regex is given by the subsystem responsibles, to provide the definition as selfservice.
But I can't talk/teach about regex, when I do not have the central feature of squared brackets!

For me that feature is one of the key features to allow or exclude a list of characters.

Without it the usability of the match() function is reduced to only a small set of situations.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 29, 2025

    Hi,
    we got another situation, where we urgently need a better regex syntax:

    For a message containing percentage values we want to react when the the values are about 80 to 99 percent. So a check with /0[89]./ would give us a great solution.

    Without it, we have to double the reaction for /08./ and /09./
    But two identical reactions are confusing and error-prone.

    Please reconsider this idea for a higher priority.

    The MATCH-function really brings a lot of potential, but we are often stopped to make greater benefit out of it.

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