[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> Even so, a lot was done in Fortran 66 because that was what
>> was available.  Storing one character per INTEGER array element
>> was inefficient but usually worked.  
> 
> One - not two or four??
> 
> Arne

If you use two or more, you are faced with the problem of "packing" and 
"unpacking" the data.  I don't believe that either Fortran II or Fortran 
  66 supported a character data type.  "Hollerith literals" were the 
best you could do and I don't think they could be used outside of FORMAT 
statements.  My copy of "Guide to Fortran Programming" has vanished in 
the mists of time along with the later edition, "A Guide to Fortran IV" 
programming.  Fortran IV did support a character data type.