Character-handling routines

The routines in this section provide various facilities for manipulating objects of Fortran CHARACTER type.

ALLOCSTR@	Allocates dynamic storage and copies a string.
APPEND_STRING@	Adds a string to the end of a line.
CENTRE@	Positions a string in the centre of a field.
CHAR_FILL@	Fills a string with a particular character.
CHSEEK@	Looks for a given string in an ordered array.
CNUM	Converts an integer to character form.
COMPRESS@	Compresses a string by using tabs.
GETSTR@	Gets a string that was stored using ALLOCSTR@.
LCASE@	Alters a character argument so that all letters become lower case.
NONBLK	Obtains the position of the first character that is not a space.
SAYINT	Returns an integer argument as text.
TRIM@	Removes leading spaces.
TRIMR@	Rotates a character string right until there are no trailing spaces.
UPCASE@	Alters a character argument so that all letters become upper case.