07-267 To: J3 From: Dick Hendrickson Subject: Interpretation: Blanks as separators in namelist input Date: 2007 July 30 NUMBER: F03/0097 TITLE: Blanks as separators in NAMELIST input KEYWORDS: Namelist input, blanks, separators DEFECT TYPE: Erratum STATUS: J3 consideration in progress QUESTION: 1) Was in intended that blanks be allowed as separators in Namelist Input? Consider an input fragment: I = 3 J = 4 Page 243:5 says that namelist value separators are the same as list directed value separators. Page 239:7 says those value separators are "...blanks between values" and then defines what the values are. The "J" above isn't a value, so the blanks aren't separators and the fragment is illegal for namelist input 2) Is there a similar problem with namelist comments as in this fragment? I = 3 ! this is a namelist comment ANSWER: 1) Yes, it was intended to allow blanks as separators for namelist input. Edits are supplied to correct the wording in the standard 2) The fragment is legal, there are no problems with blanks before comments. EDITS: SUBMITTED BY: Dick Hendrickson HISTORY: 07-xxx m181 F03/00xx Submitted