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From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: integer variable format address
Message-ID: <RN.212@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 6 Mar 91 01:19:33 GMT
References: <6769@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta
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In article <6769@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, hsbrown@lemmy.Princeton.EDU (Scott Brown) writes:
>What is wrong with the following program?
>        program test
>        integer k
>        k=1
>        write(*,k)
> 
> 1      format('here is line 1')
>        end
> 
> 
> 
>I have two FORTRAN books that suggest the write(*,k)
>statement should work.  I have two FORTRAN compilers
>that give a bus error.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
  
  Try:
      ASSIGN 1 TO K
  instead of
      K=1
  
  The trick is you are not trying to store an arithmetic value in
a variable. You are trying to associate a label (of the FORMAT statement)
with the variable. The ASSIGN statement is what you use to do this.
  
   Hope this helps! (and is correct!)
  
Dave Halliwell