https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89696
--- Comment #8 from Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl.washington.edu> --- On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 07:17:42PM +0000, kevin at fai dot host wrote: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89696 > > --- Comment #6 from Khang H. Nguyen <kevin at fai dot host> --- > Sorry, if I am wasting your time. bugzilla isn't meant for Fortran tutorials. This is my last response. > > If you use formatting. For example, in a case like this below, > it will not give a correct value, as now leading spaces will > be disregarded but no error is thrown. This code below will > give 124 > > program test1 > implicit none > character(len=100) :: str > integer :: b > str = " 1245 ab " > read(str, '(I4)') b > print *, b > end program test1 > The program is giving the correct answer for the string given. I4 means read the 1st 4 characters. Those characters are ' 124'. The rest of the string is ignored.
