Reading a string with spaces in Fortran

Question

Using read(asterisk, asterisk) in Fortran doesn\'t seem to work if the string to be read from the user contains spaces. Consider the following code:

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Answer 1

Instead of read(*, *), try read(*, '(a)'). I'm no Fortran expert, but the second argument to read is the format specifier (equivalent to the second argument to sscanf in C). * there means list format, which you don't want. You can also say a14 if you want to read 14 characters as a string, for example.

Answer 2

  character(100) :: line

  write(*,'("Enter some text: ",\)')
  read(*,'(A)') line
  write(*,'(A)') line

  end

... will read a line of text of maximum length 100 (enough for most practical purposes) and write it out back to you. Modify to your liking.