Alternate Namelist

[mattsdad]

Does Fortran provide any sort of internal namlist read from a character array buffer?

If so, how does the character data in the namelistget read?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Fortran 95 disallows it but Fortran 2003 allows it. Intel Fortran does not yet support this.

Here's what it would look like:

namelist /n/ i,j,k
integer i,j
character(10) k
character(20) lines(3)

lines(1) = '&n i=1,'
lines(2) = 'j=3'
lines(3) = 'k="abcde" '

read (lines,n)
write (*, n)
end

[mattsdad]

What release of Intel Fortran is expected to provide this feature? How soon will it be available?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This feature has not yet been targeted to a specific release, so I have no answer for you. I suggest you look for alternatives, such as writing the data to a temp file and reading it from the file.

[jimdempseyatthecove]

Steve,

Alternate name list seems quite neat. Takes me back to the days of FOCAL (1968) and some of the other interpreter languages (BASIC)where you could execute the contents of a string variable.

Questions:

Can expressions exist to right of '=' or are you limited to initialization statements only?
If expressions are supported, can userfunctions be called?

Jim

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The values follow the same rules as list-directed input. No expressions. All that is being asked for here is Namelist input from an internal file. Namelist input is already supported from a "regular" file - that's a F90 feature (and a popular extension to F77.)