PCRE 8.33 is now available to all users

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PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is an open source library.

It was ported to classic z/OS (i.e. no need for USS) and is now made available to all users.

All PCRE libraries have universal RACF read access, the main ones are:

• 'PCRE.PCRE.LOADLIB' - PCRE load modules
• 'PCRE.PCRE.SRCE' - PCRE source code in C (original and z/OS oriented)
• 'PCRE.PCRE.COB' - COBOL oriented copybooks and demo

There are few more libraries available, all start with PCRE.PCRE.*

Please see PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions for full documentation.

Please see http://www.zaconsultants.net/ for z/OS related documentation.

Please send comments to zatlas1 at yahoo dot com.

The package currently has the following limitations:

1. The PL/I interface does not work yet.
2. A REXX interface is being developed.
3. Initial testing in EBCDIC was done and seems to be working but more extensive testing and test suite should be developed.

Posted on behalf of Ze'ev Atlas