- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I've never been good at poetry... so I've started using Fortran to help me. Getting the right number of syllables in each line has always been tricky, so sometimes I skip over bits, and then fill them in later.
PROGRAM poetic_streaming IMPLICIT NONE INTEGER :: unit INTEGER :: pos OPEN( & NEWUNIT=unit, & FILE='poetry.txt', & FORM='FORMATTED', & ACCESS='STREAM', & ACTION='WRITE', & STATUS='REPLACE' ) WRITE (unit, "(A)", ADVANCE='NO') 'Mary had a ' ! Remember where we are and leave a placeholder for now. INQUIRE(unit, POS=pos) ; print *, pos WRITE (unit, "(A7)", ADVANCE='NO') '' WRITE (unit, "(A)") ' processor' WRITE (unit, "(A)") 'ifort was its name' WRITE (unit, "(A)") 'but support for querying the file position after non-advancing formatted stream access output was broken' WRITE (unit, "(A)") 'so she had to rethink her game' WRITE (unit, "(A7)", POS=pos, ADVANCE='NO') 'Fortran' CLOSE(unit) END PROGRAM poetic_streaming
Alas...
>ifort /check:all /warn:all /standard-semantics "2015-11-21 poetic_streaming.f90" && "2015-11-21 poetic_streaming.exe" && type poetry.txt Intel(R) Visual Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 16.0 Build 20151021 Copyright (C) 1985-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 10.00.40219.01 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. "-out:2015-11-21 poetic_streaming.exe" -subsystem:console "2015-11-21 poetic_streaming.obj" 1 Fortran a processor ifort was its name but support for querying the file position after non-advancing formatted stream access output was broken so she had to rethink her game
I think I spy a stray newline in there too.
Link Copied
1 Reply
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Baaaa-d. We'll haul out the shepherd's crook for this if need be.

Reply
Topic Options
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page