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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Question on standardized (used loosely) Fortran 77...
Message-ID: <2636@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Sep-84 12:51:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  1 12:51:37 1984
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In article <2233@sdccsu3.UUCP> taylor@sdccsu3.UUCP writes:
>		  Character*50 STR
>
>Then you can get a substring from it by
>using the expression <variable>(<first>:<last>) (for example,
>STR(1:20) would be a substring of the first 20 
>characters....
>
>Is this standard?

I believe that this is standard Fortran-77.
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    Barry Margolin
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