Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:32:05 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:51:25 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:18:01 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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One of the favourite functions in my library pulls the next token
from a delimited string, but as opposed to strtok() it does it
non-destructively and can handle empty strings.

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Use a high-level language which has all this and more:
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    for item in "the,quick,brown,fox".split(",") :
        print(item)
    #end for
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Output:
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    the quick brown fox
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In Python, strings are objects, and that applies to string expressions
(including string literals) as well.

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You need Rexx

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Hear, hear. Still use it.
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Rexx? That is a name I haven't heard in a long time. Do you mean Ben Kenobi?
Last time I encountered him he was doing tuning and statistics collection for on a storage system.