[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Tom Linden]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:54:54 -0800, Jan-Erik Söderholm  
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> 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.

DCL is a bit primitive, here is a better solution
http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Resources/Rexx#NetRexx

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PL/I for OpenVMS
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