ACHAR (The GNU Fortran Compiler) (original) (raw)

8.5 ACHAR — Character in ASCII collating sequence ¶

Synopsis:

RESULT = ACHAR(I [, KIND])

Description:

ACHAR(I) returns the character located at position Iin the ASCII collating sequence.

Class:

Elemental function

Arguments:

Return value:

The return value is of type CHARACTER with a length of one. If the KIND argument is present, the return value is of the specified kind and of the default kind otherwise.

Example:

program test_achar character c c = achar(32) end program test_achar

Notes:

See ICHAR — Character-to-integer conversion function for a discussion of converting between numerical values and formatted string representations.

Standard:

Fortran 77 and later, with KIND argument Fortran 2003 and later

See also:

CHAR — Character conversion function,
IACHAR — Code in ASCII collating sequence,
ICHAR — Character-to-integer conversion function