[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

90 should be enough.

Arne