[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> 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.

The MORTRAN preprocessors for Fortran 66 were written in
standard Fortran 66.  The processors are relatively simple, with
the complications being in the macros.  

-- glen