& and line continuation

[andrealphus]

Hey all, thanks for the responses. I tried a few of your suggestions
all to no avail.

I have included 3 screenshots of my examples for your scrutiny (maybe
Im screwing something else up, Ive been writing fortran for approx 3
days now).

(Im headed out the door right now, but ill check the version when i get back)

On 6/13/07, Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> andrealphus wrote:
> > I get errors whenever I try and compile any code that has the "&" used
> > for line continuation.
> > example
> >
> >     WRITE (*,*) 'Why does gfortran not'
> >      &'like me?'
> Well, putting the & in the continuing line (in column 6) is fixed format
> style, in free format one puts it at the end of the line which is to be
> continued:
>     WRITE (*,*) 'Why does gfortran not' &
>      'like me?'
>
> However, this does not work, but for a different reason; it is the same as:
>
>    write(*,*)  'Why does gfortran not' 'like me'
>
> you need to add a comma between not' and 'like, e.g.
>
>     WRITE (*,*) 'Why does gfortran not', &
>      'like me?'
>
> One could also use:
>     WRITE (*,*) 'Why does gfortran not &
>      & like me?'
>
> Note that there are now only two ' and that there is an ampersand both
> at the end of the first line and as (first non blank character) in the
> second line.
>
>
> > (I get the same error for continuing expressions..)
> >
> >     number = 1 * 5 +    &
> >            10
>
> This works here:
>
> program test
> implicit none
> integer :: number
> number = 1 * 5 +    &
>            10
> write(*,*) number
> end program test
>
> Could you give a complete example which fails including the exact error
> message and the gfortran version (gfortran -v).
>
> Tobias
>