escape character

[Lucian Botha]

Hi

I get the following error when I take out the \

So it's still not working

cheers
Lucian


SEE-SAAO.FOR:111.38:

     1              K1,time(k),IH(K),':',IM(K),':',IS(K),I1(K),I2(K),  
                                     1
Error: Syntax error in WRITE statement at (1)
SEE-SAAO.FOR:111.6:

     1              K1,time(k),IH(K),':',IM(K),':',IS(K),I1(K),I2(K),  
     1
Error: Bad continuation line at (1)


Arjen Markus wrote:
>> 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
>
>