Standard

 A Fortran line is divided into fields for the required information.
 Each column represents a single character.

COLUMN FIELD ------ ----- 1 Indicator: Comment(C,c,*,!,blank) or Debug(D,d) 1-5 Label (any decimal integer except zero) 6 Indicator: Continuation of statement (any character except zero or space) 7-72 Statement Field (up to column 72) 73-80 Sequence Number (optionally to column 132 -- ignored)

Tab

 A Fortran line is divided into fields for the required information.
 Each column represents a single character.  You cannot specify a
 sequence number field using this method of coding.

COLUMN FIELD ------ ----- (before tab) 1 Indicator: Comment(C,c,*,!,blank) or Debug(D,d) 1-5 Label (any decimal integer except zero) (after first tab) 6 Indicator: Continuation of statement (any digit 1-9) (after second tab) Statement Field (up to column 72)

Tabs are treated as single characters.