I think you provided an allocated variable to be read into and
because it was zero length no data was transferred.
> I cannot see from 7.2.1.2 or 7.2.1.3
> whether reading character variable
> from input_unit is an intrinsic assignment or not?
Seems quite clear to me (quote is not from the version you quoted)
"An intrinsic assignment statement is an assignment statement..."
Harvey
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