Hello everyone!,
This post is regarding GSoC project on improving strings support in Fortran.
The requirements of the project are such that the involvement of community will be fruitful for the overall acceptance of the libraries that are being developed under this project as the “go-to” libraries for performing string operations in Fortran.
Thus, I invite everyone to improve Fortran by leaving opinions/feedbacks on the functionalities that are currently in discussion.
If you have any functionality in your mind to propose or discuss, please feel free to tag me (@Aman-Godara).
currently in discussion:
1). find function for substring matching #421
Short Description: The function returns the starting index of the substring pattern in the input string.
This function already existed in Fortran as intrinsic index but due to its limited functionalities there was a need to design a modified version of this index function.
Function find provides user with the functionality to return the starting index of the occurrence th occurrence of the substring pattern and also, it has been provided with an option to consider or not consider overlapping substrings as different.
Linked PR: #433
Current Status: PR under review
2). Count (not raised yet)
Short Description: The function returns the number of times the pattern substring occurred in the given string string.
3). Replace substring in character/string_type #366
Short Description: The function replaces the input pattern substring with the replacement string in a given string string.
Please use the above given link to know more about the functionality, linked PR (Pull Request) and to join the discussion.
Previous work(s):
1). find function for substring matching #421
Linked PR: #414
Current Status: Under review
2). Count (not raised yet)
Linked PR: None yet
Current Status: No change
3). Replace substring in character/string_type #366
Linked PR: None yet
Current Status: No change
1). intelligent slice functionality for strings #413
Linked PR: #414
Current Status: Merged, documentation here.
If possible, please take out some time to once review function slice's documentation.