[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sometimes the standards people needed some time to catch up with 
> reality.  VAX Fortran was Fortran IV and my recollection is that it did 
> support a character data type.

VAX Fortran was Fortran 77 since relative early in the history of VAX!

I know that it was in 1986.

Arne