I ported the classic ASCII Donut to Fortran for fun... Why does Fortran hate/neglect string handling so, so much? Anything including indexing, writing, reading, concatenating strings feels so hacky? Does this feeling
Portable Character Processing in Fortran and Fixed Integer Environments | Semantic Scholar
Some Useful Fortran Tricks 1. Non-advancing status counter 2. Converting an integer or real variable into a string
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