colon and pattern matching

[Chris Sharman]

Murray Scholz wrote:
>In VMS environment (powerhouse 710G1) , the colon appears to match
>itself.
>------------------------------------
>>define a1 char*1 = "Y" if matchpattern("ABC:DEF","^^^:^^^") &
>>       else "N"
>> rep a1
>> go
>  A1
>
>  Y

Mine too: Alpha VMS 7.1, PH 7.10.G3.

>My little Handbook manual, says that the colon(:) "matches any single
>Kanji or 16 bit character" !!
>Perhaps there are platform differences in how it is handled ??

My VMS PH manuals also say it's a metacharacter for Kanji.
They would appear to be wrong.

But lo! Cognos have a fix for that.
I just got a letter telling me there won't be any more printed manuals (V8
onwards): just PDF.

Our paper manuals get well-thumbed: it's vital to have a reference,
particularly for all those niggling syntactical differences between Quiz,
Quick, QTP. And there isn't a supported Acrobat reader for VMS - am I supposed
to get a Billware box just to look at documentation ?

Cognos seem to be aiming at legacy status these days: V8 seems to be a huge
retrograde step for VMS users, and still no promise of when or whether the
missing features will be put back. No paper documentation. The web product
(when I finally kicked hard enough to get some info) is hideously priced and
not available for evaluation.

If I do get a PC, it will be to do ODBC & web serving with some sensibly priced
product, not to read Powerhouse docs.

Chris
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