Fortran doesn’t have exceptions. You can’t jump out of a function when something unexpected happens, then reflect on what happened outside the function, with the help of a try/catch block. As an alternative, intrinsic (built-in) procedures and constructs like write, read and open allow you to pass an integer variable as one of its arguments, to which it will assign a specific value indicating whether an error occurred. For example, when you try to open a file that doesn’t exist, you wil...
