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From: variyar@dukeac.UUCP (Jayasankar E. Variyar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Tab characters in output
Message-ID: <1400@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 19:37:44 GMT
References: <3101@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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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?  That is if I want tab
> delimited output to be read into a spredsheet, can I generate the
> output using Fortran Write and Format statements?  I have checked a
> few references and did not find any answers.  Thanks for the
> assistance.

The easiest way to do that is by defining a character variable .
CHARACTER TAB
TAB = 9	!ASCII equivalent of TAB
Write(UNIT#,900)a,tab,b
900	Format(f10.4,a1,f10.4)
etc..
This defenitely works on MACTRAN, a fortran compiler for the Mac
Jay