[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Paul Sture]

In article <UyLTRtE1LqIg at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <hdq07m$q1n$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer 
> <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> > 
> > F77 can be almost as painful for text stuff because
> > IIRC the standard does not provide for dynamically allocated
> > character strings.
> 
>    True, that's in a later standard (99?).  Never stopped us, as
>    Fortran programmers were were used to the idea that your buffers
>    always had to be at least as large as the largest data sample.

Yes, and that applied to COBOL too.


>    But you only need 95 to start using dynamica allocation.  And
>    all us VMS programmers started calling STR$ library routines
>    instead.  The OP didn't sya he needed portability.

Agreed, and the use of STR$ meant I could port text parsing programs 
from FORTRAN 77 to COBOL and vice versa with relative ease.

EVE's box edit feature was a great boon when doing such porting.

-- 
Paul Sture
c.o.v