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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Tab characters in output
Message-ID: <755@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 May 89 04:27:21 GMT
References: <3101@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3101@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, GX.RAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Buc Richards) writes:
> Can standard fortran output a tab character?

(Please pardon the net answer.  Reply mail wanted to send to lindy!news which
doesn't look right, and doesn't explain how to get to forsythe.stanford.edu)

If you are using FORTRAN-77 and an ASCII character set, there's an easy way.
Print char(9) (9 is the ASCII value of tab) with an A1 format descriptor.
E.g.,

      THIS=1.3
      THAT=9.5
      THOTHR=4.8
      WRITE(6,10)THIS,CHAR(9),THAT,CHAR(9),THOTHR
10    FORMAT(1X,F9.3,A1,F9.3,A1,F9.3)

which will print as

      1.300<tab>     9.500<tab>     4.800


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