[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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.

The Y2K problem was anticipated at least twenty-five years before it 
actually arrived!  No manager wanted to take the hit for fixing their 
company's code when the problem would not manifest for twenty-five, 
twenty-four, twenty-three. . . .  Oh my God!  It's HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!