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- From: am299bv@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Comments in input files (not source code)?
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:41:31 GMT
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- Reply-To: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
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- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- How would one go about writing a program that would understand a `$'
- in a data file to be a comment character and would skip to the next
- line as soon as it encountered it? That would enable you to document
- input data nicely. I can't think of a simple way to do it. Please
- forgive me if this is an RTFM question but my Fortran book did not
- have any suggestion.
-
- The only way I have been doing it so far is to add information at the
- end of each line where my program does not expect any data to be. For
- example I could have the following source code:
- ...
- read(7,*) abc, ijk, def
- read(7,*) nnn, rrr
- ...
-
- and the input file would be:
- ...
- 10.0 5 25.6 These are values for abc, ijk, def
- 235 22.5 These are values for nnn, rrr
- ...
-
- But this does not let me put comments at arbitrary places in the input
- data. Could you please let me know what techniques you use to add
- comments to your input data files? Please e-mail directly to me and
- I'll post a summary if I get any positive responses.
-
- Thanks,
- Ravi
-
- --
- Ravinder Bhumbla rbhumbla@ucsd.edu U. of California, San Diego
-