I've just started up with a new reference on page 1 and wanted to
check a couple of elementary assertions for correctness. The first
contention is that the members of list-directed IO can be delimited by
a comma or a slash during input, e.g.:
integer :: one, two, three
read *, one, two, three
, can receive input
6 enter 7 enter 8 enter or
6 / 7/ 8 enter or
6,7,8 enter ?

Do I not recall that
6 7 8 enter works too?

The other question was what currency symbols are included now in
Fortran's character set?

Hello,

Wade Ward wrote:

The separators are comma and blank.

Slash is technically a separator, but it's a special one:
slash ends the input record.

Wade Ward wrote:

There is a trick that DEC used to use before list-directed input, and
is probably still supported. That is, a comma on input would terminate
the field early. One could input, for example, with 1 FORMAT(3I10)
and input either

1 2 3

or

1,2,3,

-- glen

On Aug 28, 9:06 am, glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

Since no-one answered this:-
There are no currency symbols in Fortran as such.

But any legal lower-half ascii table character can be output (range 0
to 31 are non-legal and require care; 127=delete may do funny things)
and any symbol in the 128-255 range of the upper ascii table you are
using at the moment can also be output as a literal. (What appears
depends a lot on the operating system).

On Aug 27, 7:06 pm, glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

"Short field termination" Yep, still supported.

Steve

Terence cantv.net> wrote:

While the dollar might be a bit weak these days, last time I checked it
was still a currency. :-)

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
...

CVF still had that. Maybe IVF has it too. I hated the fact that
there was no way to turn off that behavior.

--
J. Giles

In article <1i3ij5v.16w73fasfmtz9N%%nospam@see.signature>,
Richard Maine wrote:

The problem is all the non-dollar currency symbols. Many Americans call
the hash mark or octothorp a pound sign, but it has nothing to do with
currency. If one is is referring to currency, a real pound sign is a
script upper case L with a horizontal line across its middle, in
countries that use or formerly used the pound, e.g. UK, Ireland,
Australia, NZ. Italians used the same symbol for their pre-euro
currency of lire, thereby temporarily worrying tourists from UK etc,
because one lira was worth about 0.00035 pounds :-)

John Harper mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

Yes, I know. I didn't mean to imply that Fortran had all, of even a
significant subset, of the currency symbols. But the claim that it had
"no" currency symbols seemed off by one.