In free source form, statements are not limited to specific positions on a source line. In Standard Fortran, a free form source line can contain from 0 to 132 characters. Intel® Fortran allows the line to be of any length.
Blank characters are significant in free source form. The following are rules for blank characters:
Blank characters must not appear in lexical tokens, except within a character context. For example, there can be no blanks between the exponentiation operator **. Blank characters can be used freely between lexical tokens to improve legibility.
Blank characters must be used to separate names, constants, or labels from adjacent keywords, names, constants, or labels. For example, consider the following statements:
INTEGER NUM
GO TO 40
20 DO K=1,8The blanks are required after INTEGER, TO, 20, and DO.
Some adjacent keywords must have one or more blank characters between them. Others do not require any; for example, BLOCK DATA can also be spelled BLOCKDATA. The following list shows which keywords have optional or required blanks:
Optional Blanks |
Required Blanks |
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BLOCK DATA |
ABSTRACT INTERFACE |
DOUBLE COMPLEX |
CASE DEFAULT |
DOUBLE PRECISION |
CHANGE TEAM |
ELSE IF |
CLASS DEFAULT |
ELSE WHERE |
CLASS IS |
END ASSOCIATE |
DO CONCURRENT |
END BLOCK |
DO WHILE |
END BLOCK DATA |
ERROR STOP |
END CRITICAL |
EVENT POST |
END DO |
EVENT WAIT |
END ENUM |
FAIL IMAGE |
END FILE |
FORM TEAM |
END FORALL |
IMPLICIT type-specifier |
END FUNCTION |
IMPLICIT NONE |
END IF |
INTERFACE ASSIGNMENT |
END INTERFACE |
INTERFACE OPERATOR |
END MODULE |
MODULE PROCEDURE |
END PROCEDURE |
prefix1 [prefix …] FUNCTION |
END PROGRAM |
prefix1 [prefix …] type-specifier [prefix...] FUNCTION |
END SELECT |
prefix1 [prefix …] SUBROUTINE |
END SUBMODULE |
SYNC ALL |
END SUBROUTINE |
SYNC IMAGES |
END TEAM |
SYNC MEMORY |
END TYPE |
SYNC TEAM |
END WHERE |
type-specifier FUNCTION |
GO TO |
type-specifier prefix1 [prefix …] FUNCTION |
IN OUT |
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SELECT CASE |
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SELECT TYPE |
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1prefix is ELEMENTAL or IMPURE or MODULE or NON_RECURSIVE or PURE or RECURSIVE. No prefix can be specified more than once. You cannot specify both IMPURE and PURE. You cannot specify both NON_RECURSIVE and RECURSIVE. |
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For information on statement separators (;) in all forms, see Source Forms.
In free source form, the exclamation point character (!) indicates a comment if it is within a source line, or a comment line if it is the first character in a source line.
In free source form, the ampersand character (&) indicates a continuation line (unless it appears in a Hollerith or character constant, or within a comment). The continuation line is the first noncomment line following the ampersand. Although Standard Fortran permits up to 256 continuation lines in free-form programs, Intel® Fortran allows up to 511 continuation lines.
The following shows a continued statement:
TCOSH(Y) = EXP(Y) + & ! The initial statement line
EXP(-Y) ! A continuation lineIf the first nonblank character on the next noncomment line is an ampersand, the statement continues at the character following the ampersand. For example, the preceding example can be written as follows:
TCOSH(Y) = EXP(Y) + &
& EXP(-Y)If a lexical token must be continued, the first nonblank character on the next noncomment line must be an ampersand followed immediately by the rest of the token. For example:
TCOSH(Y) = EXP(Y) + EX&
&P(-Y)If you continue a character constant, an ampersand must be the first non-blank character of the continued line; the statement continues with the next character following the ampersand. For example:
ADVERTISER = "Davis, O'Brien, Chalmers & Peter&
&son"
ARCHITECT = "O'Connor, Emerson, and Dickinson&
& Associates"If the ampersand is omitted on the continued line, the statement continues with the first non-blank character in the continued line. So, in the preceding example, the whitespace before "Associates" would be ignored.
The ampersand cannot be the only nonblank character in a line, or the only nonblank character before a comment; an ampersand in a comment is ignored.