[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> On Nov 15, 9:09 am, DTL <didier.mora... at gmail.com> 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...
> 
> Try PYTHON, PERL or AWK or DCL or TPU or BASIC if you have to.
> Fortran would be my last resort, right after Cobol.

Python and Basic are nice. Perl and AWK are a bit cryptic in syntax.
DCL and TPU are great but IMHO Not optimal for this particular task.

> Do yourself a favor and spend 2 or 3 hours with Perl  from
> http://www.activestate.com/downloads/ on windows, or on OpenVMS if you
> like (EISNER, DEATHROW, TESTDRIVE... )

I am sure that the Perl solution would be less lines than the
Fortran solution, but you could also argue that Perl is less
readable than Fortran (and that says a lot).

> It will put you in a better, forward moving, position. Garantueed.

Not job wise. Perl is last decade.

Arne