F90/F95 brought in some lovely character intrinsics.
One that is missing, and every library on the net that I
have seen has its own variant, is to uppercase (or
lowercase).
I was looking at our applications today, written by
several people and over several decades. I was shocked
to find that we have so many Mickey Mouse routines to do
what I believe should be a sim-ple intrinsic.
Though F2K is getting close (only 3/4 years down the
track) shouldn't such an intrinsic be easily acceptable?
A character by character function, or a straight string
transformation? I'd go for the latter.
We already have in place distinctions between ASCII
translations and anything else -- EBCDIC.
Just a side/snide comment, F2K looks as if it will be as
long in coming as F8x.
Regards, Paddy
Paddy O'Brien,
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Either "\'" or "\s" (to escape the apostrophe) seems to
work for most people,
but that little whizz-bang apostrophe gives me little
spam.
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