Fortran Programming Language :: Namelist formatting


	Namelist formatting I am writing a namelist using the preconnected output (I am using redirects on the command line to change this from screen to specific file name). The write statement: write (,namelist_name) and later with another program reading that same output with read (,namelist_name) The proplem is if a namelist variable is a character string that has a intermediate space the default delimiters are apostrophes. However a write will not put them in. Any suggestions. I would like to keep the nonspecified unit so I can do the redirects on the command line. Thanks <dancerch@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:1180657774.040563.176670@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... >I am writing a namelist using the preconnected output (I am using > redirects on the command line to change this from screen to specific > file name). The write statement: > write (,namelist_name) > and later with another program reading that same output with > read (,namelist_name) > The proplem is if a namelist variable is a character string that has a > intermediate space the default delimiters are apostrophes. However a > write will not put them in. Any suggestions. I would like to keep > the nonspecified unit so I can do the redirects on the command line. The OPEN statement as a DELIM specifier that allows you to control NAMELIST output in that way. However, since you want to use the asterisk unit you can't portably apply the OPEN statement to it (though many implementations provide a way). The F2003 standard provides a way to determine the unit number (if any) that corresponds to the asterisk unit. Full F2003 implementations are around yet. I don't know if this feature is one that implementers consider a priority. -- J. Giles "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare On May 31, 7:28 pm, "James Giles" <jamesgi@att.net> wrote: > The OPEN statement as a DELIM specifier that allows > you to control NAMELIST output in that way. However, > since you want to use the asterisk unit you can't portably > apply the OPEN statement to it (though many implementations > provide a way). The F2003 standard provides a way to > determine the unit number (if any) that corresponds to > the asterisk unit. Full F2003 implementations are around > yet. I don't know if this feature is one that implementers > consider a priority. > -- > J. Giles Yeah, I knew about the Open (unit=,delim=). The problem was what unit. I ended up converting my writes to unit 6 (and declaring the delimiter in an open statement) and it solved the problem although the newer method of using an asterisk would be more elegant. Thanks