10.4 ACCEPT Statement

The ACCEPT statement is a data transfer input statement. This statement is the same as a formatted, sequential READ statement, except that an ACCEPT statement must never be connected to user- specified I/O units.

An ACCEPT statement takes one of the following forms:

Formatted

 ACCEPT form [,io-list]

Formatted: List-Directed

 ACCEPT * [,io-list]

Formatted: Namelist

 ACCEPT nml

form

Is the nonkeyword form of a format specifier (no FMT=).

io-list

Is an I/O list.

*

Is the format specifier indicating list-directed formatting. (It can also be specified as FMT=*.)

nml

Is the nonkeyword form of a namelist specifier (no NML=) indicating namelist formatting.

Examples

In the following example, character data is read from the implicit unit and binary values are assigned to each of the five elements of array CHARAR:

      CHARACTER*10 CHARAR(5)
      ACCEPT 200, CHARAR
200   FORMAT (5A10)