[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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??
> 
> If you use two or more, you are faced with the problem of "packing" and 
> "unpacking" the data.

A problem but a solveable problem.

>                     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.

Standard it did not.

Arne