On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:52:52 -0700 (PDT), e p chandler posted:
> Paul van Delst wrote:
>>> On Aug 29, 4:28 pm, fm2766 wrote:
>>>> Hello, I have to convert integers in characters; for example: from
>>>> number i=123456 to string c="123456".
>>>> I could write in a file the variable "i", and later read it as a
>>>> variable "c", but this method seems to me very inefficient.
>>>> Some suggestions?
>>>
>>> Well, that's almost what you do, however, not to an external file but
>>> to an 'internal' one as defined by your c, as in:
>>>
>>> write(c, '(i6)') i
>>
>> Maybe some thought should be given to giving this process an additional, more intuitive,
>> name. It's such a common question and "Internal file writing and reading" sure isn't the
>> first thing a newcomer thinks of when they want to convert int->character or vice versa.
>
> Oh no. Let the C programmers learn some Fortran instead of whining
> about it. Learning a foreign language involves learning its idioms. To
> a FORTRAN programmer, the concept of "internal file" makes sense.
Gosh, elliot, I know that internal writes have been the answer for a lot of
questions I've had since I renewed my commitment to fortran as a syntax.
It's В§9.6 in MR&C.
What I don't see is a file. By "file," do people mean "whatever internal
variables you used to read the data?"
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