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[Little-Acorn]

I'm running FTN95, with WIN32.

Years ago when I was running BASIC (don't laugh, it has its uses), it had a function where I could pick a group of character out of a string, and assign them into a substring. Something like:

SUBSTRING$=MID$("Fourscore and seven years ago",5,9)

would assign the characters "score and" into the string variable SUBSTRING$.

Can FTN95 do anything like that?

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BASIC also had two related functions such as:

SUBSTRING$=LEFT$("Fourscore and seven years ago",6)

which would put the string "Foursc" into STRING$, and

SUBSTRING$=RIGHT$("Fourscore and seven years ago",7)

which would put the string "ars ago" into STRING$.

Do any functions similar to that, exist in FTN95?

Thanks in advance!

[JohnHorspool]

http://www.infis.univ.trieste.it/fortran/thetypec.html

An extract from the web page above:-


If the CHARACTER variable LANG has the value 'FORTRAN', some substrings are:

[PaulLaidler]

Use INDEX and then put the result into a Fortran character substring.

[Little-Acorn]

Great, thank you!