On Friday, 15 January 1999,
     MIKE RUSKAI wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about Pl/I

 MR> [snip]
 IT>> But I was wondering if there is some PL/I equivalent to REXX's
 IT>> xrange(), so that one could avoid typing the translation tables by
 IT>> hand?

 IT>> In REXX it would simply be:

 IT>> say translate(infile, xrange("A","Z"),
xrange("a","z"))
 MR> [snip]

 MR> While this works in ASCII and EBCDIC, there's no guarantee that
 MR> letters in a code page are assigned in alphabetical order.  Simply
 MR> typing the alphabet once avoids the potential problem (I'll admit
 MR> I don't know of any character set where it is a problem), and it
 MR> only needs to be typed once.

   Hmmm... haven't thought of this. Good point!

                                                            - Ivan -

.!. My other computer is even slower.
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