I've held on to FORTRAN because of its ability to explicitly define
input (and output) formats -- this is a must for extracting data from a
number of publicly available datasets.
I'm now trying to convert one of my most useful programs to PASCAL, but
I am hung up on how to read multiple variables from a single line.
For example, here's a FORTRAN format I need to emulate:
FORMAT(I3,I7,2X,A25,1X,F6.2,1X,F7.2,3(1X,I4),1X,F4.1,1X,I1)
On a single line, I begin with two integer variables, skip two spaces,
one string variable, one space followed by a real variable, skip a
space, etc.
I know of examples that involve treating each line as a character array,
but I cannot find them now. I also know how to specify write formats,
but have seen no examples of applying that to reading lines.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Dave
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