On 24 Aug, 18:20, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: >This obviosuly proves you wrong: > > Er, no, it doesn't. I suggest that you read what I said more > carefully - and the Fortran standard. As I said, you can kludge > them up, and that is precisely one such kludge -
You said we have to kludge them up as arrays. I did not. I kludged up the C string as a pointer to a Fortran string, and called strlen to get the length of the C string. You also said we can only interop with length-1 character strings. My kludge was valid Fortran and works with strings of any length up to some sane limit that you can specify. You cannot expect a C pointer to carry information about the length of the string. C strings are nul terminated, which is precisely why we have strlen. When C has to use strlen to get the length of a C string, so does Fortran. You cannot use the Fortran standard to change the behaviour of C. > but, as I also > said, it doesn't work very well. Only if you have an incredibly stupid compiler. Sturla -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
