Reading Fortran Data

[Beliavsky]

Carl Banks wrote:

<snip>

> > A Fortran
> > list-directed write can print results in an almost arbitrary format,
> > depending on the compiler. Many compilers will separate integers by
> > several spaces, not just one, and they could use commas instead of
> > spaces if they wanted.
>
> 1. Hardly any compiler will produce a line of two integers, or reals,
> that another compiler couldn't read back.

Yes, but for more than three numbers, the statement is wrong. Intel
Fortran prints four double precision random n
as

  0.555891433847495       0.591161642339424       0.888434673900224

  0.487293557925127

but g95 prints them on a single line. I advise against using
list-directed Fortran writes to create files that other programs will
read, and I think most experienced Fortran programmers would agree.