WRITE without newline? - comp.lang.fortran

Message from discussion WRITE without newline?

Ralph Jay Frisbie

More options May 28 1998, 3:00 am

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From: rfris...@nospam.vcnet.com (Ralph Jay Frisbie)

Date: 1998/05/28

Subject: Re: [Q] WRITE without newline?

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On 27 May 1998 16:02:13 GMT, "Oleg Rokach" <rok...@ncac.torun.pl>
wrote:

>Steven G. Johnson <stev...@alum.mit.edu> wrote in article
><stevenj-ya02408000R2605981723500...@news.mit.edu>...
>> This is a very simple question I'm sure, but I don't have a Fortran
>manual
>> and I need to modify some of our code.

>> How do you do the equivalent of a WRITE statement without appending a
>> newline? I want to do several disjoint WRITE's that output onto the same
>> line.

>> Thanks very much for your help!

>> Cordially,
>> Steven G. Johnson

>C For printing in the same line just use an "+" at the first position in
>output list.
>C ( this possibility is available since FORTRAN 66 !)
>C ----------------
> integer i
> do i = 1, 10000
> write (*,'(A,2x,I5)') '+ Number= ', i
> enddo
> end

Try this, however I've worked with systems where
only the last item written appears, i.e., the screen cursor
returns to column one of the display and thus the new write
overwrites the information already there. This often happens
so fast it's invisible, so you think the write is wrong.....
ralph frisbie

Ralph Frisbie
a saucer lover
but not the inventor..

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