[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <pq-dnfAHIr6TPZ_WnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
> 	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> And in the end it turned out to be more hype than reality.  Or did no
> one here notice that the world didn't end after year "99".
> 
> bill
> 

There was more than a little hype but there were also a few real 
problems that needed fixing.  I built a test server so we could change 
the current date at will.  My then employers found one Y2K bug in their 
order entry system.  That was fixed and tested.  Our New Years 
celebration was dual purpose that year!