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Strings

Strings are an interesting datatype because they are fundamental to many pieces of software, but represented differently by practically every single programming language. Strings can have a high overhead to support language interoperability because there is invariably so much copying involved.

FORTRAN 77 and 90 support for strings is limited to a predetermined buffer size. Since the results of a string assignment into that buffer in FORTRAN does not propagate the length of the string, trailing whitespace is always trimmed for any string begin passed out from a FORTRAN implementation.





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