> I mean strings that allow you to do "a+b" or similar simple concatenation Meet "//", the character concatenation operator. Part of Fortran at least since the

> I mean strings that allow you to do "a+b" or similar simple concatenation Meet "//", the character concatenation operator. Part of Fortran at least since the FORTRAN 77 standard. With the F2003 additions I mentioned, one can do stuff like program stringtest implicit none character(:), allocatable :: s s = "hello" s = s // " world" print *, s end program stringtest where the first executable statement (s = "hello") allocates space for "hello" on the heap, and the second statement reallocates that heap space to now have room for the previous contents + " world". And since Fortran allocatables are a bit like C++ RAII, they are automatically deallocated when they go out of scope. Is this as convenient as doing string handling in, say, python? IMHO, no, but better than plain C + stdlib.