escape character

[Arjen Markus]

> Hi
>
> I'd like to use a colon as a time separater hh:mm:ss in a sequenc of
> numbers to be printed to file.
>
> Code:
>
>
> WRITE(11,'(I4,2X,f7.4,1x,I3,A1,I3,A1,I3,2X,2I4,2(2X,2F6.2),2X,F4.1)')
>      1              K1,time(k),IH(K),\:,IM(K),\:,IS(K),I1(K),I2(K),
>      1              FWHML(K),FWHMT(K),FWHMLZ(K),FWHMTZ(K),ZD(K)
>
> WRITE(40,'(I4,2X,f7.4,1x,I3,A1,I3,A1,I3,2X,2I4,2(2X,2F6.2),2X,F4.1)')
>      1              K1,time(k),IH(K),\:,IM(K),\:,IS(K),I1(K),I2(K),
>      1              FWHML(K),FWHMT(K),FWHMLZ(K),FWHMTZ(K),ZD(K)
>
> from I3, A1,I3,A1,I3
>
>        represents e.g
>
>         12:25:44
>
>
> But colon : is also a delimeter
>
> I'm using gfortran: GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3) on
> Hardy (ubuntu)
>

The colon (:) is not a delimiter perse - at least not according
to the Fortran standard. In the above WRITE statement replace \:
by ':' and it should work fine.

Colons play a special role in I/O formats (I do not remember the
details - I never use colons in formats), but in the above
context you should treat them as ordinary characters.

Regards,

Arjen