topic Re: Please help : WRITE command problem in Operating System - Microsoft

Please help : WRITE command problem

valero — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:57:48 GMT

Hi

I run a Compaq Fortran (6.6) program, that write some data in a text file.
One of the data is a string. But, when editing the text file, it appears that every data with length > 60 characters is write on two or more lines.

Is there a max length for data when using
WRITE(5,*) (for example) ?

Thanks for Help.

Lionel

Re: Please help : WRITE command problem

Darren Prior — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:02:33 GMT

Hi,

If you use od -tax textfilename, can you see any CR/LF characters? If not, then the line wrapping may be caused by whatever you're using to display/edit the file.

regards,

Darren.

Re: Please help : WRITE command problem

valero — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:19:29 GMT

Thanks,

but I've opened the text file with 3 different editors (Word, NotPad and UltraEdit), the file appears the same. In Word, I can see CR/LF characters.

Here is a sample of my program :

PARAMETER (NMAX=500)
CHARACTER*15 UFEEDSo(NMAX)

DO 1005 J=1,NfeedsO
strFEEDSO=TRIM(strFEEDSO)//TRIM(UFEEDSo(J))//';'
1005 CONTINUE

WRITE(NFOUT,*) I,';','UNIT',';',TRIM(UID(I)),';',
+ 'ProductData',';',TRIM(strFEEDSO)

where NfeedsO >=1

So, it seems that strFEEDSO contains the entire value (150 length string), but Write command stores the value on 2 lines...

The problem is important for me, because I'm working on an excel macro that extract data from this text file. So, if the data are not correctly stored, my macro crash.

Thanks again for help.

Lionel