(j3.2006) internal writes to deferred length strings?

[Damian Rouson]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) <
thomas.l.clune at nasa.gov> wrote:

> I?m a big fan of deferred length strings and now use them heavily in my
> code.    Having said that, there are few use cases where the existing
> functionality is a bit frustrating.
>

Ditto


>
> Of course, having WRITE() automatically allocate deferred length strings
> would beg the question of what to do if the string were already allocated.
>   E.g., some might want the string shortened as we do for array assignments
> and differently sized arrays.   For myself, the reasonable compromise would
> be to leave the case with allocated strings unchanged, and only modify the
> result when using an unallocated deferred length string.
>

I agree with this choice.

Damian
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