Intel Fortran Language Reference - NCI National Facility

Data Transfer I/O Statements 10
group-name
Is the name of the group containing the objects to be given values. The name must have been
previously defined in a NAMELIST statement in the scoping unit. The name cannot contain
embedded blanks and must be contained within a single record.
object
Is the name (or subobject designator) of an entity defined in the NAMELIST declaration of the
group name. The object name must not contain embedded blanks except within the parentheses of
a subscript or substring specifier. Each object must be contained in a single record.
value
Is any of the following:
• A constant
Each constant must be a literal constant of type integer, real, complex, logical, or character; or
a nondelimited character string. Binary, octal, hexadecimal, Hollerith, and named constants
are not permitted.
In general, the form of the constant must be acceptable for the type of the list item. The data
type of the constant determines the data type of the value and the translation from external to
internal form. The following rules also apply:
— A numeric list item can correspond only to a numeric constant, and a character list item
can correspond only to a character constant. If the data types of a numeric list element
and its corresponding numeric constant do not match, conversion is performed according
to the rules for arithmetic assignment (see Table 4-2).
— A complex constant has the form of a pair of real or integer constants separated by a
comma and enclosed in parentheses. Blanks can appear between the opening parenthesis
and the first constant, before and after the separating comma, and between the second
constant and the closing parenthesis.
— A logical constant represents true values (.TRUE. or any value beginning with T, .T, t, or
.t) or false values (.FALSE. or any value beginning with F, .F, f, or .f).
A character string does not need delimiting apostrophes or quotation marks if the
corresponding NAMELIST item is of type default character, and the following is true:
— The character string does not contain a blank, comma (,), slash (/), exclamation point(!),
ampersand (&), dollar sign ($), left parenthesis, equal sign (=), percent sign (%), or
period (.).
— The character string is not continued across a record boundary.
— The first nonblank character in the string is not an apostrophe or a quotation mark.
— The leading characters are not a string of digits followed by an asterisk.
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