Why Won't My Fortran 90 Loop Output to a File?

[Taylor_1989]

Hi, guys I am very new to programming in fortran90 and I am just experimenting with stuff. I have been trying to get my output of my loop program to a text file. But for some reason it will not work. Could someone please advise.

Code displayed below:
PROGRAM loop

IMPLICIT NONE

integer :: counter

open(10, file='jason.txt')

do counter= 1,10,1

WRITE(*,*) 'Jason', counter
end do

close(10)end program loop

 

[phinds]

... it will not work.

This is not a helpful statement. Does it fail to compile? Does it compile but fail to output what you expect? Does it compile but fail to output anything at all? You see my point ?

 

[Mark44]

Hi, guys I am very new to programming in fortran90 and I am just experimenting with stuff. I have been trying to get my output of my loop program to a text file. But for some reason it will not work. Could someone please advise.

Code displayed below:

PROGRAM loop

IMPLICIT NONE

integer :: counter

open(10, file='jason.txt')

do counter= 1,10,1

   WRITE(*,*) 'Jason', counter
end do

close(10)end program loop

Your write statement needs to write to the unit you opened -- unit 10.
Link to some documentation: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~hile/fortran/fort7.htm

 

[wle]

WRITE(*,*) 'Jason', counter

Change this to "write(10,*) 'Jason', counter".

But like phinds says, "it doesn't work" isn't usually very helpful information.

 

[Taylor_1989]

@Mark44 thank you I have just corrected my code.

 

[Taylor_1989]

I have taken you comment on board. I will endeavour to improve my context when posting. Once again thank you for the quick responses.

 

[Mark44]

I have taken you comment on board. I will endeavour to improve my context when posting.

Good. Saying "for some reason it will not work" really doesn't tell us anything. Fortunately your program was very simple, so several of us were able to spot the problem right away.

For future reference, the more information you give us about the problems you're having, the faster we can find the problem. Useful information is whether the program will compile or not. (If it won't compile, you have syntax errors, usually the easiest kinds of errors to find and fix.)

If the program compiles, but doesn't produce correct output, or even any output at all, that is useful information. The time-honored technique of including extra write statements is useful, especially if you don't have or don't know how to use a debugger.