Thus it was written in the epistle of John Korb,
> I need to provide an interface where the user can enter a regexpr and only
> those records (from an IMAGE database) which match the regexpr are
> listed/dumped to a file.
>
> Is there a procedure callable from MPE languages where you pass it a string
> containing a regular expression (regexpr) and a string containing text to
> be tested with the regexpr and the procedure returns either a "TRUE"
> (matches regexpr) or "FALSE" (doesn't match regexpr), or better yet, if it
> matches the regexpr returns the offset to where the match was found?

Obviously, writing your application in Perl would provide you that ability.  I
don't know of a regex library call/intrinsic built into MPE, but there are
freeware regex libraries which could, probably very easily, be ported.  An
example is

  http://www.gnu.org/directory/rx.html

Ted
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