Re: [Plplot-devel] F95 changes

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:06:06AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 2012-01-25 10:57, Andrew Ross wrote: > > > If the string contained characters, then just the characters were passed > > (with trailing spaces removed). If a null string was passed (i.e. of > > length 0), then the

Re: [Plplot-devel] F95 changes

2012-01-25 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Andrew, On 2012-01-25 10:57, Andrew Ross wrote: > If the string contained characters, then just the characters were passed > (with trailing spaces removed). If a null string was passed (i.e. of > length 0), then the returned string was a C NULL string. If the fortran > string was of length

Re: [Plplot-devel] F95 changes

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:45:25AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > On 2012-01-24 20:06, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > > > > Actually, trailing blanks in character strings do have a significant > > > effect in Fortran. I

Re: [Plplot-devel] F95 changes

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On 2012-01-24 20:06, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > > Actually, trailing blanks in character strings do have a significant > > effect in Fortran. In particular, if a Fortran > > user wants to put a trailing blank into one

Re: [Plplot-devel] F95 changes

2012-01-25 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, On 2012-01-24 20:06, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Actually, trailing blanks in character strings do have a significant > effect in Fortran. In particular, if a Fortran > user wants to put a trailing blank into one of the character > string arguments of PLplot, she should be allowed to do s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing and Fortran 2003

2012-01-25 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, I tested this issue this morning with the following simple program: --- test_arg.f90 --- ! test_arg.f90 -- ! Small test program: command-line arguments reachable ! via a DLL? ! program test_arg use arg_mod implicit none call arguments end program test_arg --- and