.f
3 claimants
3 primary
0 secondary
shared primary (3)
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
Case variants in archive: .f (2.1M), .F (1.0M) — aggregated above.
Claimants (5)
Languages that list .f among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
| Language | Source | Strength |
| filebench-wml | linguist | primary |
| Forth | wikidata | primary |
| fortran | linguist | primary |
| fortran | wikidata | primary |
| Forth | linguist | secondary |
Wikidata says… (3)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim .f on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
Click Use as new PL on any row to open the
Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata
URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Disambiguation rules (3)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .f file actually is.
| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) |
h/linguist/.f/0 | Forth | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^: "]}] |
h/linguist/.f/1 | filebench-wml | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["flowop"]}] |
h/linguist/.f/2 | fortran | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^(?i:[c*][^abd-z]| (subroutine|program|end|data)\\s|\\s*!)"]}] |
SWH-mined examples (1)
Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
swh:1:cnt:7629668e705c792bea37e726af0d79485d54bdc3;origin=https://github.com/Dhondtguido/CalculiX;anchor=swh:1:rev:350e9c8352c868c623483d2b7d037d6955de8b5f;path=/src/getversion.f