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> <p>Leslie,</p>
> <p>Thank you for your interest.<br>
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> <p>I'm not clear on your question, but will try to answer it as I
> read it. Yes, any new method should avoid name collision, in the
> program, and more important, in the mind of both the reader and
> writer. But this is so much more than abbrev, either the NetRexx
> method or the Pipeline stage and used under different
> circumstances than either of those. It is convenience method for
> scanning the argument string passed to a Pipeline stage, just as
> that string is scanned for ranges, etc. Yes, it uses the abbrev
> method as needed, internally. But it returns so much more,
> including the now excised string for further processing.</p>
> <p>As an example of where it could be used, here is part of the
> diagram for the DATECONVERT stage:</p>
> <p><font face="monospace"> +-- 1-*
> ------------------------+<br>
> >>--DATECONVert--+-------------------------------+-------------------
>--------><br> +-| Separator |--| Inputrange |-+<br>
> <br>
> +-SHOrtdate ISOdate---------------------+ +-WINDOW
> -50------------+<br>
> >---+---------------------------------------+--+-----------------------+
>------><br> | +-ISOdate----------+
> +-WINDOW--signednumber--+<br>
> +-| Inputformat |-+--+------------------+
> +-BASEYEAR--yearnumber--+<br>
> | +-PREFACE-+ | +-| Outputformat |-+<br>
> +-NOW-+-(5)-----+-+<br>
> +-APPEND--+<br>
> +--MIDNIGHT--(4)-+<br>
> >--+-----------+--+----------------+------------------------------------
>---->><br> +--TIMEOUT--+ +--NOON--(4)-----+<br>
> </font></p>
> <p>It would be used in processing the argString for the stage to see
> if the keyword TIMEOUT, MIDNIGHT, NOW, or WINDOW, etc. is present
> and get the value for WINDOW. None of these would be using the
> abbrev method part at all, but if it were used to see if SHOrtdate
> were in there, it would use abbrev.<br>
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> <p>It, in its current iteration, has limitations that I will add to
> the comments. This includes that in searching for a given
> keyword, it does not know about quoted or delimited strings, so
> looks inside them too, stopping at the first instance of the key.
> I will also add that, if given "" for a key, and searching for a
> DString, it will look at the left end of the string, that is,
> after word[0].</p>
> <p>If this does not answer your question, it is because of my faulty
> reading of your question. In that case, please help me with it.</p>
> <p>Jeff<br>
> </p>
> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/30/2020 6:43 PM, J Leslie Turriff
> wrote:<br>
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> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 2020-08-30 13:36:57 Jeff
> Hennick wrote: </pre>
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> <p>For NetRexx Pipelines, I am going to add a new method to
> <b>utils.nrx</b>. It is to search an argument string for a key
> word or abbreviation.</p> <p>/*<br>
> getKeyWord(argString, key, minKeyLength = 0, type = 'K')<br>
> <br>
> This searches a string for a word or its abbreviation. It is for
> searching argument strings<br>
> for key words. A minKeyLength of '' or 0 means the full length
> is needed.<br>
> The search is case independent. What it returns depends on the
> Key.<br>
> <br>
> Key values (Only the first character is used):<br>
> -- Key: return boolean exists;<br>
> -- Subword: return next word;<br>
> -- Dstring: return DString<br>
> -- Qword: return QWord<br>
> <br>
> It returns a Rexx Indexed string of what it found including
> the<br> original string with the keyword (and Subword, Dstring, or
> Qword) removed.<br>
> If the key word is not found the original string is
> returned.<br> <br>
> returns:<br>
> [0] 5 -- number of return strings<br>
> [1] the argString without the keyword &amp;
> subkeyword(s)<br> [2] the subkeyword(s) value (or for type Key 1:
> keyword found | 0: keyword not found)<br>
> [3] the actual keyword found, this may be an abbreviation or
> mixed case <br>
> [4] the delimiter for types Dstring and Qword<br>
> [5] the word number of the keyword, 0 for not found<br>
> */<br>
> </p>
> <p>An alternative way of presenting this function (less Rexx-like
> and more Java-like) would be to make it a class with getter
> methods.</p>
> <p>Your comments, ideas, etc. are all requested and
> welcomed.</p> <p>Jeff<br>
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> You are calling it getKeyWord instead of abbrev to avoid a collision?
>
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No, I understand now that this is an internal function that the user does not
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