[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <guqdnThZW8crkp3WnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> You may not find much!  Fortran's strength was numerical computation. 
> It would be used for text processing only if nothing else were available.

   Ever since Fortran-77 introduced CHARACTER data type and operators,
   we did tons of string manipulation quite readily in Fortran.

   It dosn't have all the power of the C RTL, or string processing
   languages like SNPOBOL, but at east you don't have to call
   three functions just to contatenate two substrings.