Well, technically, there is a way to intersperse explicitly defined strings with default format numbers using an asterisk, but my experience with it has been...suboptimal. Safer and non-ambiguous to define formats for all variables. If you have a bunch of contiguous numeric variables, you can define the format for all of them with a single format specification, as in David's example of (2F1.0). The asterisk trick would also work in that example, as in: v1 v2 * v3 (a3). But anything much more complicated than that, and it tends to not work. The documentation seems a little vague on the subject, or at least my cursory exploration didn't yield anything more specific.
Thanks.
I don’t deal with strings often. I didn’t realise that I had to define the numbers also.
Jeff
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To expand on David's response, if you have anything other than unformatted numbers, you need to identify the data types (including the unformatted numbers).
data list free / V1 V2 (2F1.0) V3 (a3)
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