[Lazarus] reading FORTRAN-style input in Lazarus

[David M. Lawrence]

I've held on to FORTRAN because of its ability to explicitly define 
input (and output) formats -- this is a must for extracting data from a 
number of publicly available datasets.

I'm now trying to convert one of my most useful programs to PASCAL, but 
I am hung up on how to read multiple variables from a single line.

For example, here's a FORTRAN format I need to emulate:

FORMAT(I3,I7,2X,A25,1X,F6.2,1X,F7.2,3(1X,I4),1X,F4.1,1X,I1)

On a single line, I begin with two integer variables, skip two spaces, 
one string variable, one space followed by a real variable, skip a 
space, etc.

I know of examples that involve treating each line as a character array, 
but I cannot find them now.  I also know how to specify write formats, 
but have seen no examples of applying that to reading lines.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Dave

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