Sujet : Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 03. Jun 2024, 09:12:32
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On Thu, 30 May 2024 10:15:54 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:
This was using hand-punched cards, writing FORTRAN 2 code with the
Hollerith text constants so you had to count very carefully:
FORMAT 27HTHIS IS A VERY LONG TEXT STRING...
Hey, did you not notice the columns were numbered? So all you had to do to
determine the length of the string was subtract column numbers?