[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> DTL wrote:
>> I'm urgently needing some examples of Fortran code to do text
>> processing, mainly reading a file, doing some strings manipulation
>> then writing records into a new file.
>> I trashed all my DEC stuff five years ago. Too bad...
> 
> You may not find much!  Fortran's strength was numerical computation. It 
> would be used for text processing only if nothing else were available.

It has been seen before.

And besides Fortran 77 is not that bad. CHARACTER is fine. Fortran 66
would be painful.

Arne