	INTEGER FUNCTION TM_LENSTR1 (line)

*
*
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*
* determine the length of a character string as the position of the last 
* non-blank character
* unlike TM_LENSTR this routine will return a length of 1 (vs. 0) if the string
* is all blanks

* programmer - steve hankin
* NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA - Tropical Modeling and Analysis Program
* written for VAX computer under VMS operating system
*
* revision 0.00 - 05/05/87 - based on TM_LENSTR rev. 0.00
* ywei - 05/04 call C tm_get_strlen function to speed up
*
* calling argument declarations:
	CHARACTER*(*) line

* internal variable declarations:
	INTEGER	mright, len_str

* initialize: find highest possible right hand limit of string
	mright = LEN(line)

        CALL TM_GET_STRLEN(len_str, mright, line)
* for all blanks
        IF(len_str .EQ. 0) THEN
            TM_LENSTR1 = 1 
        ELSE
            TM_LENSTR1 = len_str
        ENDIF

	RETURN
	END
