[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4b020bf8$0$271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 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.

That's the mindset which creates Y2K problems.