# 091. Use iostat and iomsg to handle READ errors
topic: {ref}`input-and-output`
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The Fortran 2003 module iso_fortran_env has constants
iostat_eor -- end of record
iostat_end -- end of file
to which the iostat of a READ statement will be set if that error occurs. READ also has an iomsg specifier returning a text error message.
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