Character Data Type

The character data type can be specified as follows:

CHARACTER
CHARACTER([LEN=]len)
CHARACTER(LEN=len, KIND=n)
CHARACTER(len, [KIND=]n)
CHARACTER(KIND=n [, LEN=len])
CHARACTER*len[,]

n
Is kind 1.

len
Is a string length (not a kind). For more information, see Declaration Statements for Character Types.

If no kind type parameter is specified, the kind of the constant is default character.

On Windows systems, several Multi-Byte Character Set (MBCS) functions are available to manipulate special non-English characters.

See Also

• Character Constants
• C Strings
• Character Substrings
• Character Data Type