------- Comment #5 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-09-20 07:56 ------- (In reply to comment #0) > In gfortran a WRITE of a NAMELIST group into an internal file appears to all > go into the first record. [...] > only major complaint with that is that I first guessed that your output > into an internal file would be formatted just like it was to stdout. > > But gfortran output to stdout or to a file writes in a very different format, > putting one keyword=value per line (which I like, but is also not required by > any standard requirement I can find).
If you use a scalar string, there is only a single record - thus gfortran has no choice then using only one record. You could instead use a character array, e.g. character(30) :: str(6) integer :: a, b, c, d namelist /nml/ a,b,c,d str = '' write(str,nml=nml) write(*,'(a)')str end >From the F2008 standard: "If the file is a scalar character variable, it consists of a single record whose length is the same as the length of the scalar character variable. If the file is a character array, it is treated as a sequence of character array elements. Each array element, if any, is a record of the file." (In reply to comment #4) > This issue, line ending for namelist to character arrays, has come up before. > I don't remember the outcome of that previous discussion. I will research a > little. Well, in gfortran character arrays seem to do what urbanjost would like to have: A new record for each namelist element. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45710
