[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Tom Linden wrote:
>> DCL is a bit primitive, here is a better solution
>> http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Resources/Rexx#NetRexx
> 
> How do you know that DCL is "too primitive" for the actual need ?
> 
> The only thing I know is that the need was to :
> 
> "...mainly reading a file, doing some strings manipulation
>  then writing records into a new file."
> 
> If this is a one-off kind of thing, hacking together a few lines
> of DCL is what I would do...

DCL is available.

DCL is something everybody knows.

(we are assuming on VMS !)

But the DCL lexicals are not the best string library available.

Arne