Re: Formatting a print statement

From: Richard E Maine (nospam_at_see.signature)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:42:28 -0800

In article <38hbm2F5m9bkoU1@individual.net>,
 "Gottfried von Korinth" <karlmueller@gmx.net> wrote:

> (Actually, I did not figure out, how that write works: I came up with
> something like
> write (*,'number: ',advance='NO')
> and do not understand, why my first try
> write (*,advance='NO') "number: "
> does not work. It may be that I stuble upon the difference between formatted
> and unformatted write?)

Well.... yes. There is a *HUGE* difference between formatted and
unformatted. Fundamentally, unformatted is not mean for human
consumption at all. This has nothing in particular to do with advancing
vs nonadvancing. It has much more to do with the fact that standard
output is a formatted file and thus you can't do unformatted output to
it. (Some systems might let you get by with doing unformatted output to
a formatted file, but that's not part of standard Fortran, and is
definitely in the category of system-dependent trickery).

I suspect that you may be getting confused by a common terminology
error. Many people incorrectly refer to list-directed formatting as
unformatted. While I don't see that particular error above, it is
possible that the above is a consequence of the confusion that often
results from thinking that list-directed and unformatted are the same
thing.

(There is a set of parens missing from the first example, but that's
just a trivial syntax detail not very relevant to the matter). 

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