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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:12:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 30 May 2024 10:15:54 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:

> This was using hand-punched cards, writing FORTRAN 2 code with the
> Hollerith text constants so you had to count very carefully:
> 
>     FORMAT 27HTHIS IS A VERY LONG TEXT STRING...

Hey, did you not notice the columns were numbered? So all you had to do to 
determine the length of the string was subtract column numbers?