Fortran - Re: Count Items challenge

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Re: Count Items challenge

robin

2005-08-24, 3:57 am

David Frank wrote in message ...
>PL/I syntax does not support writing a single statement that scans a line
>once, and count the items in the line.

PL/I does. But Fortran doesn't.

A single-scan PL/I version is:

get string (trim(line)) list ((v do COUNT = 1 to length(line)));

>OTOH, my Count_Items function in
>http://home.earthlink.net/~davegemini/strings.f90
>does just that.

No it doesn't. It scans each character in the line TWICE,
and that means that it scans the line twice.

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