Fortran Help. Reading space delimited floats

[Rotarman]

Hi all, long time lurker: finally have a question I couldn't find already answered.

I'm doing some work with Fortran95 for a research project, and I'm a complete noob, so pardon me. The issue is that I have some data I'd like to read from a text file in double precision that is between 7 and 10 digits long on a single line (ex: 156.254569 25.485975 2.698757) and no pattern to how many digits (1-3) before the decimal. I'd thought about maybe doing something funky like turning them into strings then breaking it up into three strings somehow and turning each back into a float, but I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about it. As well, there are ~30k lines and each will be read at least 3 times for computations, so I'd like to keep it as simple as possible to speed up calculations. Anyone have a neat solution (or an ugly one) for this?

Thanks in advance

 

[jtbell]

Have you tried using the default format that a * format specifier gives you?

read (unit_num, *) a, b, c

(with a, b, c declared as having the appropriate precision, of course)

 

[Rotarman]

This worked! I tried it without high hopes because there's letters before the floats on each line, but adding a dummy variable formatted as a string, it read everything without a hiccup. Thanks so much!