<html lang="en"> <head> <title>X format descriptor without count field - The GNU Fortran Compiler</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="The GNU Fortran Compiler"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Extensions-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran.html#Extensions-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran" title="Extensions implemented in GNU Fortran"> <link rel="prev" href="Extensions-to-namelist.html#Extensions-to-namelist" title="Extensions to namelist"> <link rel="next" href="Commas-in-FORMAT-specifications.html#Commas-in-FORMAT-specifications" title="Commas in FORMAT specifications"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="X-format-descriptor-without-count-field"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Commas-in-FORMAT-specifications.html#Commas-in-FORMAT-specifications">Commas in FORMAT specifications</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Extensions-to-namelist.html#Extensions-to-namelist">Extensions to namelist</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Extensions-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran.html#Extensions-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran">Extensions implemented in GNU Fortran</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">6.1.4 <code>X</code> format descriptor without count field</h4> <p>To support legacy codes, GNU Fortran permits the count field of the <code>X</code> edit descriptor in <code>FORMAT</code> statements to be omitted. When omitted, the count is implicitly assumed to be one. <pre class="smallexample"> PRINT 10, 2, 3 10 FORMAT (I1, X, I1) </pre> </body></html>