GF

GF reads and writes strings and numbers. It left justifies strings and right justifies numbers. Strings may be any value not exceeding the specified length. Numbers may include a decimal point at any position and may have an exponent.

The following program demonstrates this:

00010    open #1: "name=xxx,recl=80,replace",internal,outin,relative 
00020    write #1,using 'form gf 10,c': 1234.56,"X"
00030    write #1,using 'form gf 10,c': "1234.56","X"
00040    write #1,using 'form gf 14,c': 123456e-20,"X"

This program produces a file with two records containingthe following, where "bbb" represents three blank spaces:

bbb1234.56X
1234.56bbbX
bbb1.23456E-15X   (the normalized form of the value)