[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4b01e512$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> C is not that good at string at all. Among other reasons due to
> lack of string type.

   String constants, but not string variable type and no string
   operators.  But it would take a few lines of Fortran with its
   CHARACTER variables and operators to replace a single C RTL
   call in many cases.

   Still, neither was designed to be a string processing language.