The colon edit descriptor terminates format control if no more items are in the I/O list.
Suppose the following statements are specified:
PRINT 1,3
PRINT 2,13
1 FORMAT (' I=',I2,' J=',I2)
2 FORMAT (' K=',I2,:,' L=',I2)
The following lines are written (the symbol ^ represents a nonprinting blank character):
I=^3^J=
K=13
! The following example writes a= 3.20 b= .99
REAL a, b, c, d
DATA a /3.2/, b /.9871515/
WRITE (*, 100) a, b
100 FORMAT (' a=', F5.2, :, ' b=', F5.2, :, &
& ' c=', F5.2, :, ' d=', F5.2)
END