I'm writing in fortran (90). My program must read file1, do something with every line of it and write result to file2. But the problem - file1 has some unneeded information in first line.
How can I skip a line from input file using Fortran?
The code:
open (18, file='m3dv.dat')
open (19, file='m3dv2.dat')
do
read(18,*) x
tmp = sqrt(x**2 + 1)
write(19, *) tmp
end do
First line is a combination of text and numbers.
One possible solution has already been presented to you which uses a "dummy variable", but I just wanted to add that you don't even need a dummy variable, just a blank read statement before entering the loop is enough:
open(18, file='m3dv.dat')
read(18,*)
do
...
The other answers are correct but this can improve conciseness and (thus) readability of your code.