[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Eager wrote:
> 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...!
> 
> 

If you don't know a tool, you can probably learn it.  If you don't HAVE 
the tool, somebody may have to cough up some cash!