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8.15 ALLOCATED — Status of an allocatable entity

Synopsis:

RESULT = ALLOCATED(ARRAY)
RESULT = ALLOCATED(SCALAR)

Description:

ALLOCATED(ARRAY) and ALLOCATED(SCALAR) check the allocation status of ARRAY and SCALAR, respectively.

Class:

Inquiry function

Arguments:

ARRAY The argument shall be an ALLOCATABLE array.
SCALAR The argument shall be an ALLOCATABLE scalar.

Return value:

The return value is a scalar LOGICAL with the default logical kind type parameter. If the argument is allocated, then the result is.TRUE.; otherwise, it returns .FALSE.

Example:

program test_allocated integer :: i = 4 real(4), allocatable :: x(:) if (.not. allocated(x)) allocate(x(i)) end program test_allocated

Standard:

Fortran 90 and later; for the SCALAR= keyword and allocatable scalar entities, Fortran 2003 and later.