[netrexx-pipelines] Fun with stream I/O, Address, Java.nio.

[J L. T. <jlt...@ma...>]

Hi,
	I've written a little routine to replace plain quotes and apostrophes (' ") with the 
curly variety (‘ ’ “ ”) but I'm having fun getting it to compile.
	Chapter 16.2 of the NetRexx Programming Guide shows this example:
| loop i=1 while lines('testdata.txt') > 0
|   say i linein('testdata.txt')
| end
but when I compile fixQuotes.njp (attached) the compiler says it can't find both lines() 
and lineIn() methods (see attached fixQuotes.streamIOfail).
	I tried replacing the loop with the Address command, but
| address bash 'cat' progName'.help'
fails, complaining of a missing 'with' clause (see fixQuotes.addressFail).  It appears 
that Address expects either a simple variable or a literal here, but in any case, the 
with clause is supposed to be optional (Language Reference, pg 60)?
	I didn't want to use the stream I/O paradigm for creating a backup of the file to be 
processed, so I tried the example shown in Core Java Volume II 11th Ed. by Cay S. 
Horstmann, pgs.114, 115:
| Files.copy(fromPath, toPath, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING,
|                              StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES)
The document says this method is provided by java.nio.file.Files, but
pipc complains about the StandardCopyOptions clauses (see fixQuotes.FileCopyFail), though 
I added
| include java.nio.
in my source.
	Suggestions for workarounds are welcome. :-)
	
Leslie
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