# Colon Editing (:)

The colon edit descriptor terminates format control if there are no more items in the I/O list.

## Examples

Suppose the following statements are specified:

         PRINT 1,3
         PRINT 2,13
    1    FORMAT (' I=',I2,' J=',I2)
    2    FORMAT (' K=',I2,:,' L=',I2)

The above code causes the following lines to be written (the symbol ^ represents a nonprinting blank character):

    I=^3^J=
    K=13

The following shows another example:

     !     The following example writes a= 3.20 b= .99
           REAL a, b, c, d
           DATA a /3.2/, b /.9871515/
           WRITE (*, 100) a, b
     100   FORMAT (' a=', F5.2, :, ' b=', F5.2, :, &
          &        ' c=', F5.2, :, ' d=', F5.2)
           END

Parent topic: Control Edit Descriptors

## See Also

Forms for Control Edit Descriptors