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From: blickstein@babel.DEC (Dave Blickstein)
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Subject: In response to using FORTRAN files with VAX-11 C
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 11:34:45 EDT
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One can use the Q format item in FORTRAN to get the length of a record that was
read.  For example: 

	READ (1,'(Q,A)') LENGTH, STRING
	TYPE *, 'String read is "',STRING(1:LENGTH),'"'

You can then use substrings, as shown above, to access only the data read.