gfortran error : Unexpected element '<' in format string

Question

I suffer the pain to compile the old fortran source code using gfortran. I did not have many experience to do this, so please help me to correct the source code based on the error message.

disturbance.f:1416.31:

 1505     format ( I7, E12.3, < npftu>E10.3 )          
Error: Unexpected element '<' in format string at (1)

please note that there is no space between npftu and < >.

Hristo Iliev · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-09 12:35:23Z

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Variable FORMAT expressions are non-standard and are not supported by gfortran (link to the documentation).

I know your pain - I've also struggled with this problem many times before until I migrated completely to another compilers collection...

edited May 9, 2012 at 12:35

answered May 9, 2012 at 12:24

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Kuo-Hsien Chang Over a year ago

Thanks. The easier way for me is just to know the columns for npftu. In my case, I use 10 here, so the new code would like: 1505 format ( I7, E12.3, 10E10.3 )

Alfonso Santiago Over a year ago

Knowing the columns of what you need is just a particular case. Being able to use a variable string format is much more flexible, even if you fix that variable to 10 ;)

Kuo-Hsien Chang · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-09 15:19:04Z

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Thanks. The easier way for me is just to know the columns for npftu. In my case, I use 10 here, so the new code would like: 1505 format ( I7, E12.3, 10E10.3 )

answered May 9, 2012 at 15:19

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