Is this line continuation method Standard conforming ?

I'm still curious if this is valid way of using the same less then 72 character wide blocks of text with continuations across both the free and fixed formats if I put & at the end of the line and then also & in the 6th position of continuation line? Is this Standard conforming ?

         common aaaaaaaaa, bbbbbbb, ccccccccc, &
     &  dddddddddddd, eeeeeeee, fffffffffffff, &
     &  gggggggggggg, hhhhhhhhhhhhh    

Dan,

Yes it is standard conforming.

For free format, you can end a line with & then start the next line with an &

For it to be standard conforming for both free and fixed format, the & on the second line must be in column 6, and the & on the first line must be beyond column 72, hence 73 While fixed format allows lots of continuation characters in column 6, & works for both.

All this is more difficult if the continuation involves a long text string, say a character variable or a format statement. In these cases, implied text continuation produces code that is not easy to read or check, so I resort to // concatenation when spaning multiple lines, eg

       ch = 'this is a very long string continued ' //  &
      &    'over 2 lines'

John

John, I think i confused everyone. My example does not work for fixed form if & is at the end of the line within 72 characters. So i removed any mentioning of that in previous text. The way of continuation you are mentioning is a nice trick though.