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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/19/2022 11:01 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/19/22 10:38 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2022-01-19 15:31:52 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>>
>>> In article <ss98fn$ahb$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
>>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ah, well. Phillip, you're on your own.
>>>
>>> A couple of people had already posted the proper answer:
>>
>> That's what this does, but (mistakes aside) in one line.
>>
>> But for some of us, the proper answer is probably closer to "don't use 
>> DCL".
>>
>> DCL, FORTRAN, C, and some other common OpenVMS programming languages 
>> just aren't very good at strings.
> 
> This might have been sarcasm, but why would you think FORTRAN an C
> "aren't very good at strings".

They can do strings but they are not great with strings.

           variable    rich string   protection
           length      function      against out of
           strings     library       range access
Fortran      -           -              -
C            -           +              -

Arne