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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Left justify of integers.
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.043052.29008@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Jun 91 04:30:52 GMT
References: <quan.675653087@sol>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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In article <quan.675653087@sol> quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Stephen Quan) writes:
>I'm having a slight, almost trivial problem, I cannot write
>integers without them being right justified.
>
>eg  write (*,*) 5
>
>    gives
>
>    ......5   (. are leading spaces)
>
>
>Is there some format statement (i1.1 or something) that will
>solve this problem?  I want a general solution, not just :
>
>    write (*,'(i1)') 5
>
It was for exactly this reason that I urged X3J3, during all the public
reviews, to generalize format specifications so that the "w" part was
optional, as it is in "a" formats.  The committee responded that the
standard ALLOWS an implementor to do just this with * format.  But it's
hard to mix * with precise fixed formats, and, in addition, few if any
vendors left justify numbers in * format.

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