[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

Or DCL. Definitely available on all (VMS) systems.