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[DanRRight]

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 ?

[JohnCampbell]

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

[DanRRight]

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.