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Manual Reference Pages  - char (3)

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NAME

char(3f) - [FORTRAN:INTRINSIC:CHARACTER] Character conversion function

SYNTAX

result = char(i [, kind])

DESCRIPTION

char(i [, kind]) returns the character represented by the integer I.

    ARGUMENTS

I	The type shall be INTEGER.
KIND	(Optional) An INTEGER initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result.

RETURN VALUE

The return value is of type character(1)

EXAMPLE

Sample program:

    program demo_char
    implicit none
    integer :: i = 74
    character(1) :: c
        c = char(i)
        print *, i, c ! returns ’J’
    end program demo_char

NOTE

See [[ichar]] for a discussion of converting between numerical values and formatted string representations.

STANDARD

[[FORTRAN 77]] and later

CLASS

[[Elemental procedure|Elemental function]]

SEE ALSO

[[achar]], [[iachar]], [[ichar]]

Functions that perform operations on character strings, return lengths of arguments, and search for certain arguments:

Elemental:
	adjustl(3), adjustr(3), index(3), len_trim(3), scan(3), verify(3)
Nonelemental:
	repeat(3), trim(3)

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char (3)

March 11, 2021

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