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How to read free-formatted data in text file
- Thread starter bklee
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Please explain free formatted
1) Any number of items in a row
2) A known number of items but in unknown positions
(1) requires a bit of thinking.
(2) use read (10,*) a, b, c
If you don't know how many items there are, read it into a characater string first,
scan the string to count how many. Say there are n items
1) Any number of items in a row
2) A known number of items but in unknown positions
(1) requires a bit of thinking.
(2) use read (10,*) a, b, c
If you don't know how many items there are, read it into a characater string first,
Code:
character*80 str
read(10,'(A80)') str
Code:
read (str, *) (x(i), i = 1, n, 1)- Status