Re: Alternative COBOL "telco" source program

From: robin (robin_v_at_bigpond.mapson.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 16:35:19 GMT

From: "David Frank" <dave_frank@hotmail.com>, RoadRunner - Central Florida
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 06:56:29 GMT
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| "L Russ" <lruss@superlink.net> wrote in message news:cfaeadf3.0405291901.250f89e@posting.google.com...
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| > Does FORTRAN have support for a varying length string? I mean other
| > than that thing that allows functions to be called with different
| > length strings, which isn't the same thing. Wrong group to ask in?
|
| I'm not sure its even part of the new F2003 standard, there is a
| user-developed
| varying length string module avail. that provides support.
| I personally think using c-strings is all thats really needed if strings
| must be
| manipulated while holding on to trailing blanks and have my own simple
| little
| varying string module using c-strings that met challenges presented to
| translate
| various PL/I varying string examples several years back..
.
No it didn't. IIRC your code relied on a zero byte to terminate
the string, thereby making the code data conscious.
I.E., it didn't do the job.
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...
| > LR

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