FORTRAN Reference Manual

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Referencing a RECORD Field
Referencing a RECORD Field
In an executable statement, you refer to a field within a RECORD by appending a
circumflex to the end of the RECORD name followed by the name of the field that you
want to reference. You might have a succession of circumflex/field-name combinations
if you reference a field of a RECORD that is nested more than one level deep.
record-name
is the name of the outermost RECORD.
field-name
is the name of a field within a RECORD. field-name can be any field within a
RECORD except a FILLER.
In the following example, the syntax to reference each field of the employee RECORD
appears to the right of the field:
RECORD employee <-- employee
FILLER*10 <-- cannot be referenced
CHARACTER*10 name <-- employee^name
CHARACTER*10 hired <-- employee^hired
RECORD salary <-- employee^salary
REAL pay <-- employee^salary^pay
INTEGER dept <-- employee^salary^dept
END RECORD
END RECORD
You must always fully qualify a field name to access it.
You cannot access a FILLER field.
record-name^ field-name [ ^ field-name ]...