I have a program in Fortran that saves the results to a file. At the moment I open the file using
OPEN (1, FILE = 'Output.TXT')
However, I now want to run a loop, and save the results of each iteration to the files 'Output1.TXT'
, 'Output2.TXT'
, 'Output3.TXT'
, and so on.
Is there an easy way in Fortran to constuct filenames from the loop counter i
?
you can write to a unit, but you can also write to a string
program foo
character(len=1024) :: filename
write (filename, "(A5,I2)") "hello", 10
print *, trim(filename)
end program
Please note (this is the second trick I was talking about) that you can also build a format string programmatically.
program foo
character(len=1024) :: filename
character(len=1024) :: format_string
integer :: i
do i=1, 10
if (i < 10) then
format_string = "(A5,I1)"
else
format_string = "(A5,I2)"
endif
write (filename,format_string) "hello", i
print *, trim(filename)
enddo
end program