Oct. 21, 2020
11:30 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 7:21 PM Steven D'Aprano
There's a middle ground of text parsing tasks that would seem to be a good match for some sort of scanner, inspired by C's scanf, whether it uses % or {} format codes.
Maybe COBOL PICTURE clauses. Admittedly, I've never used COBOL, but I thought that one feature looks really good.