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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 30 Sep 2024 19:53:49 GMT
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not
> applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself

I've worked with interfaces where the data fields are determined by the 
character position in the string with spaces used to pad fields. It was 
fun explaining to the support people configuring the queries that what 
appeared to be an empty field had to be exactly 5 spaces or the whole 
thing would be thrown off.