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+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/arrayio_2.f90	Fri Oct 27 22:46:09 2017 +0900
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+! { dg-do run }
+! PR 21875 : Test formatted input/output to/from character arrays.
+! This test ckecks proper positioning and padding with trailing blanks
+! after write operations.  Contributed by Paul Thomas.
+     program arrayio_2
+     implicit none
+     integer :: i=2
+     character(len=12), dimension(4,2)  :: r = "0123456789ab"
+     character(len=80)                  :: f
+
+     f = '("hello"/"world")'
+
+     write(r(1:4,i-1), f)
+
+     f = '("hello",t1,"HELLO",1x,"!"/"world",tl12,"WORLD")'
+
+     write(r((i-1):(i+1),i), f)
+
+     if ( r(1,1).ne.'hello       ' .or. &
+          r(2,1).ne.'world       ' .or. &
+          r(3,1).ne.'0123456789ab' .or. &
+          r(4,1).ne.'0123456789ab' .or. &
+          r(1,2).ne.'HELLO !     ' .or. &
+          r(2,2).ne.'WORLD       ' .or. &
+          r(3,2).ne.'0123456789ab' .or. &
+          r(4,2).ne.'0123456789ab') call abort()
+
+     end program arrayio_2