In article <4kbs0p$gko@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>,
Colin McGrath <cmm@trac3000.ueci.com> wrote:
|Is it likely that the MATCHES keyword will continue to be able to be used
|to search for a substring within a string variable? The 4gl program listed
|below displays the proper message ("found" or "NOT found") when MATCHES
|is used to search a string for a substring. It works both in compiled and
|p-code.
It's a documented operator. (See, for example, pp. 3-326 of the I4GL
Reference Version 6.0)
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