Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!mikel
From: mikel@pyrps5 (Mike Lipsie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Tab characters in output
Summary: No, but yes
Message-ID: <69927@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 12 May 89 15:45:07 GMT
Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
Reply-To: mikel@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Mike Lipsie)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
Lines: 17

In article <3101@lindy.Stanford.EDU> GX.RAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Buc Richards) writes:
>
>Can standard fortran output a tab character?  

Standard FORTRAN (77) does not allow for a tab character, per se.  The T,
TL, and TR FORMAT codes (which can be mnemonically thought of as tab, tab
left, and tab right) are clearly to be implemented with blanks.  However,
it allows you to have CHARACTER variables/constants with "any characters
capable of representation in the processor".

This means that, while you cannot have any truly portable code, you can
write code that will work on your machine.  And, if your machine uses
ASCII, your code should work on a large set of machines.

-----------
Mike Lipsie                                         mikel@pyramid.com
Pyramid Technology Corp, Mountain View, CA  +1 415 965 7200 ext. 4980