Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On 7/8/05, Einstein, Daniel R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry for this, but I need to write ASCII from my Python to be read by > > > FORTRAN and the formatting is very important. Is there any way of doing > > > anything like: > > > > > > write(*,'(3(" ",1pe20.12))') (variable) > > > > > Which Fortran compiler? I know VMS Fortran was very friendly, > when specifying "blanks not significant" or something like that... To > read three floating numbers (regardless of format) merely required > something like: > > read(*, '(bn,3f)') a, b, c > > (or 'bs' for blanks significant -- I forget which one enabled free > format input processing)
Fortran 77 and later versions have "list-directed" I/O, so the OP could simply write read (inunit,*) a,b,c if the numbers in his input file are separated by spaces or commas. An online reference is http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/doc3k/B3150190022.12120/9 . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list