[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Tom Linden wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:09:41 -0800, DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Why fortran?  Use PL/I or VAXSCAN
> 

A lot depends on the tools available.  Nobody is going to spring for 
PL/1 to solve a problem that can be solved using a tool already at hand.
Fortran would not be my choice of language for word processing but, if 
that's all you have. . . .

Without more details of the problem, I see no reason not to use EDT or TPU.