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<h4 class="subsection">6.1.7 I/O item lists</h4>
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To support legacy codes, GNU Fortran allows the input item list
of the <code>READ</code> statement, and the output item lists of the
<code>WRITE</code> and <code>PRINT</code> statements, to start with a comma.
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