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Blanks

  The blank, or space, character is ignored everywhere in Fortran statements (except within character constants, which are enclosed in a pair of apostrophes). Although you do not need to separate items in Fortran statements with blanks, it is good practice to include a liberal helping of them since they improve legibility and often simplify editing. The only limitation (as explained below) is that statement lines must not extend beyond column 72.



Helen Rowlands
8/27/1998