Create KML File

[schw1927]

I am trying to write a FORTRAN program to create KML files to open with Google Earth. When I use standard output to a create KML file, the text output begins in the second column. Google Earth requires that the first line of the KML file begin in the first column or it returns an error. How to I make the outputted file begin in the first column so that Google Earth will read the file?

Thanks in advance!

 

[mojomother]

You need to use FORMAT statements, e.g. FORMAT('(A)') for a character string. Without such a statement, standard Fortran output starts with a blank for reasons I have never understood.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[schw1927]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[xwb]

The space is only on some versions: it is a carriage control character for the days when there were line printers.

space does a line feed
0 keeps it on the same line
1 generates a page feed

 

[gullipe]

Hi xwb

I think that the carriage control character was (and is) "+" to keep the output on the same line (maybe made for punched cards oridinally?):

space       One line
0           Two lines
1           To first line of next page
+           No advance (stdout only, not files)

 

[xwb]

Yes you're right - just been looking at my old stuff where I had to use Fortran to print ± and embolden text on line printers in the mid 70s. It was the only language that had that feature.