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

John R. Macdonald wrote:

>     Another approach would be to use unformatted I/O, and write your
>     values out to a temporary file. Read that file back in with another
>     language that does more efficient I/O and do your printing at that
>     time. So Fortran does the calculations and writes the numbers to a
>     tape or temp file, which you pass to a second step written in COBOL or
>     PL/I that formats the report.

wouldn't the easiest and fastest approach be to write out all five 
values per line with one format statement?

can't you do:

     do 20 (index = ...)
     v1 = value(index)
     v2 = value(index + 1)
     v3 = value(index + 2)
     v4 = value(index + 3)
     v5 = value(index + 4)
     WRITE (*,*) 'v1=',v1,',  v2=',v2,',  v3=',v3,',  v4=',v4,',  v5=',v5
     index = index + 5
20  continue

?

yvette hirth