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From: GHAVERLA@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA (G Haverland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: String manipulation.
Message-ID: <1083@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 28 Oct 90 16:50:11 GMT
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>In article <quan.656726015@sol> quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:
>>I need to do some string manipulation with a type : character*128.
>>Can I do the following?
>>
>>       character*128 str1
>>       character str2(128)
>>       equivalence (str1,str2)
>
 
I tried to do something similar a few years ago
with the Absoft FORTRAN compiler on the HP Integral
PC.  In one case (I believe the array of characters)
there was one character per word (32 bits), and the
other case there was 4 characters per word.  I was
examining the data space with the debugger when
I found this out.  I don't remember if I had equivalenced
the variables though.
 
Gordon Haverland, U of Alberta SLOWPOKE Facility