[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hdq07m$q1n$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 
> F77 can be almost as painful for text stuff because
> IIRC the standard does not provide for dynamically allocated
> character strings.

   True, that's in a later standard (99?).  Never stopped us, as
   Fortran programmers were were used to the idea that your buffers
   always had to be at least as large as the largest data sample.

   But you only need 95 to start using dynamica allocation.  And
   all us VMS programmers started calling STR$ library routines
   instead.  The OP didn't sya he needed portability.