Problem with array definition

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Hello,
I am guessing you are using the gfortran compiler and you wrote something like this and saved it in a file foo.f.

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      dimension a(6)
      a=[0,0,0, &
 0    ,0,0]
      end

What went wrong here is that you used free-format Fortran but the conventions of gfortran treat the contents of foo.f as fixed-form Fortran. In fixed-form the trailing ampersand (&) is an error (which is the Error: Syntax error in array constructor at (1)) and that first zero on line 3 is interpreted as a statement label and not part of a statement (which is the Zero is not a valid statement label at (1))

If you write free-format Fortran you must either put it in a file with a filename extension that the compiler expects (most compilers will accept .f90 for this) or override the compiler’s defaults with a command line option (in gfortran’s case, -ffree-form)

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