[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> In article <4b00b9f9$0$276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>> And besides Fortran 77 is not that bad. CHARACTER is fine. Fortran 66
>>>> would be painful.
>>> F77 can be almost as painful for text stuff because
>>> IIRC the standard does not provide for dynamically allocated
>>> character strings.
>> Lack of dynamic allocation is not necessarily a problem
>> for this type of problem.
>>
>> I don't even think it is likely that it would be used
>> even if it were available.
> 
> If you have to concatenate substrings of lengths unknown at
> compile time, the only clean solution is dynamic memory.
> I think this is a very common problem in text processing.

In most cases you will know max lengths.

Arne