Character input

[bobo12]

i am puzzled, if only 1 char has been written to file NEWT, how can i read read 127 chars, won't all the values be ' '
assume FMAT is character*127 which holds a fortran-type format like 40F1.0, and FMAT1 is char[127]

OPEN (11,FILE='NEWT',STATUS='NEW')
WRITE (11,'(A)') FMAT
CLOSE (11)
OPEN (11,FILE='NEWT')
READ (11,5)(FMAT1(I), I = 1,127)
5 FORMAT (127A1)
CLOSE (11)

i guess my ? is, what are the values in FMAT1.

 

[xwb]

Null strings (two consecutive primes) are illegal. The remaining values will be spaces.

 

[bobo12]

hi,
what do u mean when you say...
"Null strings (two consecutive primes) are illegal."
what piece of code are u referring to?

 

[xwb]

X = ''  ! compiler doesn't like this
X = ' ' ! this is OK