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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 90 status
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Date: 17 May 91 15:49:16 GMT
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In article <1991May16.195414.25217@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
|> In article <23881@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
|> >9) H edit descriptors.
|> >   I disagree here.  [...]
|> 
|> What I like about it is that to get your header format, you just copy the 
|> format statement you're going to use for your numeric output, changing each 
|> numeric field to a character field of the same width.  [...]

Your idea was interesting and perfectly useful.  I would point out however
that column headers are not the only context where the character count of
a literal string is useful.  Still, there's no denying that your method has
a lot going for it.  Walt Brainerd should publish your idea as a letter to
the Fortran Journal.

J. Giles