Unit number / standard output

[velvia]

Hi,

Does the standard output has a unit number ? I want to be able to write a type-bound procedure which looks like

subroutine writeDescription(theUnit)

integer, intent(in) :: theUnit

write (theUnit, *) 'My description'

end subroutine

and I want to call something like myObject%writeDescription(*).

What can I do ?

Francois

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The standard way to do this is to use the named constant OUTPUT_UNIT from intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV. For example:

[fortran]use, intrinsic :: iso_fortran_env
write (OUTPUT_UNIT,*) 'My description'[/fortran]

You can't pass * as an argument, but you could pass OUTPUT_UNIT if you wished.