Intel® Fortran Compiler

Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767251
Date 3/31/2025
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Document Table of Contents

Colon Editing (:)

The colon edit descriptor terminates format control if there are no more items in the I/O list.

Examples

Suppose the following statements are specified:

PRINT 1,3 PRINT 2,13 1 FORMAT (' I=',I2,' J=',I2) 2 FORMAT (' K=',I2,:,' L=',I2)

The above code causes the following lines to be written (the symbol ^ represents a non-printing blank character):

I=^3^J=
K=13

The following shows another example:

! The following example writes a= 3.20 b= .99 REAL a, b, c, d DATA a /3.2/, b /.9871515/ WRITE (*, 100) a, b 100 FORMAT (' a=', F5.2, :, ' b=', F5.2, :, & & ' c=', F5.2, :, ' d=', F5.2) END