[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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,

In many ways I think Fortran is just as good as C for this.

C is not that good at string at all. Among other reasons due to
lack of string type.

Arne