Re: Does this string processing work for you?

In article <iG6%e.3123$U51.295@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
robin <robin_v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It isn't a question of "keeping ... hands off".
> When code sich as this is optimised, the control variable
> may be kept in a register, rather than in storage.
> When the loop terminates unexpectedly, the contents
> of the register are lost, and the value of the
> variable in storage is not changed.

Also, what is kept in that control register is probably not the
fortran integer index, it is more likely a byte-oriented address
that is incremented by the size of the items that are read.

$.02 -Ron Shepard
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