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From: rommel@ars.muc.de (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: "in" operator?
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 21:38:50 +0200
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jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca (Jonathan Story) writes in article <776371346jonathan.jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca>:
>In article <2e45594a.415253@ars.muc.de> rommel@ars.muc.de (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
>>When using stems like associative arrays:
>>
>>foo=bar
>>...
>>stem.foo = "foo bar"
>>say stem.bar
>>...
>>
>>etc.
>>
>>I would like to have a way to determine *which* values exist for a
>>given stem, something like awk's "in" operator. I can't find something
>>like this. Is there something to accomplish this and am I perhaps only
>>overlooking the obvious?
>
>This does seem to be a deficiency in the language. Fortunately
>Quercus Systems has addressed this with a number of functions
>included with their REXXLIB. One such function is CVTAILS(). Here's
>an excerpt from the Users Guide:
...
>I think that there is a demonstration version of REXXLIB for OS/2 in
>the usual archives. REXXLIB is quite the thing; the only major
>drawback is that it is not included with OS/2 (and cannot, therefore,
>be used for writing code for general use.)

Actually, I have a copy of Quercus' REXXLIB here. :-)

Kai Uwe Rommel

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