HP Fortran Programmer's Reference (September 2007)

Arrays

Array inquiry intrinsics

Chapter 3 81

Array inquiry intrinsics

Table 3-1 lists and brieﬂy describes the inquiry intrinsic functions that return the properties

of an array. For a full description of these intrinsics, see Chapter 11, “Intrinsic procedures,” on

page 501.

Table 3-1 Array inquiry intrinsic functions

Intrinsic Description

ALLOCATED Returns the allocation status of an allocatable array;

see “Allocatable arrays” on page 64.

ASSOCIATED Returns the association status of an array pointer;

see “Pointer association status” on page 132.

LBOUND Returns either the lower bound of a speciﬁed

dimension or the lower bounds of the array as a

whole.

SHAPE Returns the shape of the array as a rank-one integer

array.

SIZE Returns the size of the array or the extent of a

particular dimension.

UBOUND Returns the upper bound of a speciﬁed dimension or

the upper bounds of the array as a whole.