On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Serg, > > Can you give us a few links to look at that describe what you're talking > about... I'm intrigued! > > -joe Basically, Rexx parsing is about chopping up strings into chunks, according to user-defined criteria, and serially assigning them to variables. This is very neat, because you can specify the context around the target sub-string(s) you seek to isolate, via a template. As for the links: http://www.markcrocker.com/rexxtipsntricks/rxtt28.2.0224.html A good introduction http://www.kilowattsoftware.com/tutorial/rexx/parseTutorial.htm http://www.danofsteel.com/Parser/ A Perl implementation of Rexx parsing Hope this helps.