------- Additional Comments From jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk 2005-02-16 12:32 ------- > However, gfortran currently accepts it without complaint.
However, in general, this can only be found at runtime (also with NAG f95): program testRead implicit none character(len=19) fmt character(1) resp ! assume this is well hidden in a different subroutine fmt='('' hit return: '',$)' write (*,fmt=fmt) read (*,'(a)') resp write (*,'('' well done.'')') end -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20006