Re: Fortran Users! Is there a better way to do this?

I had thoguht of that approach, but I would need six different writes and
six different format statements
and a counter to control which one to use right?  (one to advance to the
next line and 5 to print each column)

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Dave Wade <g4ugm-/rAkYNWUBEC+PENguQupYdBc4/[email protected]>wrote:

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>
> Rod,
>
>  From what I remember Fortran i/o is expensive so your solution is probably
> more efficient than the alternative which would be to use the "+" format
> control to allow multiple prints to occupy the same line.
>
> Dave
> G4UGM
> *Illegitimi Non Carborundum*
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Ron Hudson
> *Sent:* 15 May 2010 21:20
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [turnkey-mvs] Fortran Users! Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Hey fellow fortran users..
>
> I have a program that produces a long list of numbers calculated one after
> the other.
> I want to print these numbers 5 wide to save 'paper'
>
> What I am doing now:
>
> an array(5)
> a pointer = 0
> loop
>    increment pointer
>    fill array(pointer) with next calculated result)
>    if pointer = 5
>        print array on a line of the page
>        zero pointer
> until done calculating
> if (pointer .ge. 1) print array(1 - pointer)
> ...
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> Ron
>
>
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