Intel Fortran has a (very) nifty language extension that allows an edit descriptor to be an integer expression, using the < > brackets has shown in the subject line above. But is there a standard compliant equivalent form or workaround?
The standard-compliant way is to write the format into a character variable and then use that variable as the format. That extension, Variable Format Expressions, dates back to the DEC PDP-11 days and has earned us the enmity of lots of other compiler developers.
