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From: bzr10@ccc.amdahl.com (Bruce Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Question about Parsing
Keywords: Rexx parse parsing
Message-ID: <a9Jy02vz03WS01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:45:00 GMT
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Reply-To: bzr10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com Bruce Richardson
Organization: Amdahl Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario
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How about using INTERPRET? As in...
    number = 4
    interpret "parse value 'dog/cat' with word1 "number" word2"

By the way (BTW?): the =(number) construct did not work on my TSO/E
system with REXX370 3.45!
                                         Regards, Bruce
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