From: HK on
That's a lot of help! I have never explored the 'fanciful' extras in
the READ statement, especially the internal files, but now I got it
working! I also used IOSTAT because I avoid GOTO statements, or any
line numbers anywhere except for formatting.
Thanks again for everyone's generosity!

From: Dan Nagle on
Hello,

HK wrote:
> That's a lot of help! I have never explored the 'fanciful' extras in
> the READ statement, especially the internal files, but now I got it
> working! I also used IOSTAT because I avoid GOTO statements, or any
> line numbers anywhere except for formatting.

If you would like to eliminate line numbers completely,
investigate using character expressions as formats
and remove your format statements.

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Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.