Re: backslash-issues

On 2005-06-30, Clive Page <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>CHARACTER(LEN=1), PARAMETER :: backslash='\\'
>
> While I'm not sure who thought of that first, I think I may have made
> that posting. I've certainly used it for some years on a variety of
> compilers and never found one where it didn't do the job. Unless
> someone else knows of a counter-example.

If you are trying to also keep your code F-compliant, than the above
trick does not work. The problem is in the len=1 which must become
len=* in F. And this breaks the whole idea of the trick...

Regards,
Bart

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