7. I/O
7.1 Files
Paradoxically, Fortran, the scientific language par excellence, has a fine array of tools for manipulating files, further enhanced by the recent standard.
There are two types of files, depending on the form of their content:
text files, whose records (or components) exclusively contain strings of characters (text-type files in Pascal; offered by the predefined text_io package in Ada; created under the control of an editing format in Fortran, and in stream mode in PL /1);
binary files, whose records are sequences of arbitrary values (or formatless files).
Two methods of accessing records are available in Fortran:
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Standardization
- Programming Language-Fortran-Extended. - ANSI INCITS 198 - 1992
- Information Technology – Programming languages – FORTRAN. - NF EN 21539 - 2-94
- Systèmes de traitement de l'information. Infographie. Système graphique de base (GKS). Interface langage. Partie 1 : FORTRAN. - ISO 8651-1 - 4-88
- Technologies de l'information. Arithmétique indépendante de langage. Partie 1 : arithmétique de nombres entiers...
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