CHARACTER

Statement: Specifies the CHARACTER data type.

Syntax

CHARACTER
CHARACTER([KIND=]n)
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.

See Also

Character Data Type, Character Constants, Character Substrings, C Strings, Declaration Statements for Character Types

Example

C
C   Length of wt and vs is 10, city is 80, and ch is 1
C
    CHARACTER wt*10, city*80, ch
    CHARACTER (LEN = 10), PRIVATE :: vs
    CHARACTER*(*) arg !declares a dummy argument
C   name and plume are ten-element character arrays
C   of length 20

    CHARACTER name(10)*20
    CHARACTER(len=20), dimension(10):: plume
C
C   Length of susan, patty, and dotty are 2, alice is 12,
C   jane is a 79-member array of length 2
C
    CHARACTER(2) susan, patty, alice*12, dotty, jane(79)