Compression of output arrays

[HoWol76]

Fortran also allows namelists to be of the form

&nml
arr(1:10) = 2*1, 4*2, 5, 3, 2*5
/

At the moment, f90nml seems to be able to read such a namelist, but not write it in this form. I have an issue where I have large arrays (several thousand values) where almost all values are identical. Being able to compress this data would make my namelists far more readable.

[marshallward]

I agree, this would be good to implement, perhaps with a control flag. This also falls under #24 to some extent since there ought to be more ability to shape output.

I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to work on this but will take it on board.

(Also nice to hear from you again, Holger!)

[HoWol76]

Could you give me some pointers on where you would insert the code necessary to make this change? I could play around with it a bit and then maybe even implement it.

[HoWol76]

I think I found it. Made a pull request.

[marshallward]

Addressed in #123