Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!helios!inetg1!dprpjf From: dprpjf@inetg1.Arco.Com (Paul Fowler) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: intrinsic Keywords: intrinsic list Message-ID: <406@inetg1.arco.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 15:30:45 GMT References: <52072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@inetg1.arco.com Reply-To: dprpjf@inetg1.Arco.Com (Paul Fowler) Distribution: comp Organization: Arco Oil & Gas Company Lines: 35 In article , quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Stephen Quan) writes: > v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) writes: > >In article , quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes... > >>Could anyone give me a list of intrinsic names. > >>eg. > >> COS SIN DCOS DSIN CHAR ... > [..] > > You beauty! This helps a great deal! For instance, I've replaced 26 > IF statements in my uppercase to lowercase conversion routine by one! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > - Don't tell me there is an instrinic to do *that* already! > If you did have an intrinsic to do case conversion, you could count on it not being part of the ANSI/ISO Fortran77 standard - because lowercase letters are not part of the standard character set! (Of course, if you were using C, you could use tolower(), but let's not start up THAT war again...) > Stephen Quan, > University of Tasmania. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #include /* These silly opinions are mine alone, etc., etc. */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Paul Fowler | When they kick at your front door | | ARCO Oil and Gas Co. | How you gonna come? | | Plano, TX | With your hands up on your head | | phone: 214-754-6525 | Or on the trigger of your gun? | | dprpjf@arco.com | ( - The Clash - ) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------