Sequential READ statements transfer input data from external sequential-access records. The statements can be formatted with format specifiers (which can use list-directed formatting) or namelist specifiers (for namelist formatting), or they can be unformatted.
A sequential READ statement takes one of the following forms:
READ (eunit, format [, advance] [, asynchronous] [, id] [, pos] [, size] [, iostat] [, err] [, end] [, eor]) [io-list]
READ form [, io-list]