[fortran, documentation, patch] intrinsic.texi: fix examples

Brooks Moses bmoses@stanford.edu
Tue Apr 24 10:42:00 GMT 2007


At 01:16 AM 4/24/2007, Daniel Franke wrote:
>On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:00:44 Brooks Moses wrote:
>
> > One little question, though.  On this change:
> > > -  CHARACTER(len=*) :: str = "gfortran"
> > > +  CHARACTER(len=10) :: str = "gfortran"
> >
> > Why len=10, rather than len=8?
>
>The example (FPUT) continues with a DO loop,
> >  DO i = 1, len_trim(str)
>
>There should be something to trim as more often than not strings are padded
>with whitespace, in my rather short experience at least.

Sounds like an excellent reason to me.  Good choice!  :)

- Brooks



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