[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:07:30 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> 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.

I would personally use REXX. But then it  always depends on what you 
actually know, as well as what is available...!


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