Re: Parsing challenge to reduce blanks

"David Frank" <dave_frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is there any "sentinel" character that you dont object to using for a
> "sentinel", how about char(1) ?

Nope. The appropriate solution is an extra LOGICAL array to
hold the result of the test, not trying to store the results
back in the CHARACTER array somehow.

--
write(*,*) transfer((/17.392111325966148d0,6.5794487871554595D-85, &
6.0134700243160014d-154/),(/'x'/)); end


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