[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Without knowing the details, I can't help wondering if perhaps this is a 
  job for awk/nawk/gawk.