I am not sure if this will be of any help but there is a relatively new command line option /NO_TRUNCATE that leads to an error message for truncated lines.
Truncated line as an error
OOps, how we could miss that? That's what i call devilry, and now the whole forum is bewitched ROTFL ...damn, i looked several times, even with electronic search, unbelivable!
That command is exactly what we need.... My gray matter compiler makes such mistakes i can not believe...clearly it is analog, not digital LOL
Well, yes, unfortunately when I tried using it the lines with the comments with exclamation marks this time in ANY position looking like these, gave me may be 100000 'errors' where there are actually none:
integer, parameter :: N_mprpx=n_n*N_m,nxydim=max(50000,N_mprpx) ! 100000 ! 200000 bef 20050515
A lot of legitimate lines with less then 73 positions also gave me errors i do not know why, may be 8-space tab is incorrectly interpreted.
common /refrindex/ WL_RAY_1, wl__2_reonpi, k_whos_anal_lrmm1234,
Please look at this switch from your side why it behaves this way, it is hard to believe that's just such obvious compiler bug, or the compiler was offended by the name of variables like the last one. LOL
I have fixed the problem about getting a warning when an exclamation mark appears in column 73. This fix will be included in the next release (after 6.35).
Thanks, Paul. Will be happy to betatest the fix on our million lines codes, since there were a lot of other false positives, some did not even have the exclamation marks at all