HP Fortran Programmer's Reference (September 2007)

HP Fortran statements
CHARACTER
Chapter 10296
CHARACTER
Declares entities of type character.
Syntax
CHARACTER [ char-selector ] [[, attrib-list ] ::] entity-list
char-selector specifies the length and kind of the character variable. It takes one of the
following forms:
• ([LEN=] len-spec [, KIND= kind-param ])
• ( len-spec , [KIND=] kind-param )
• (KIND= kind-param [, LEN= len-spec ])
• * len-const [,]
• *( len-spec [) ,]
where kind-param (if specified) must be 1, the default; len-spec is either
an asterisk (*) or a specification expression; and len-const is an integer
constant. In the last form, len-param is enclosed in parentheses, and the
optional comma may be included only if the double colon does not appear in
the type declaration statement. If len-spec evaluates to a negative value, a
zero-length string is declared. If len-spec is unspecified, the default is 1.
attrib-list is a list of one or more of the following attributes, separated by commas:
If attrib-list is present, it must be followed by the double colon. For
information about individual attributes, see the corresponding statement in
this chapter.
entity-list is a list of entities, separated by commas. Each entity takes the form:
name [( array-spec )][* len-spec ][= initialization-expr ]
Table 10-4
ALLOCATABLE INTRINSIC PRIVATE
DIMENSION OPTIONAL PUBLIC
EXTERNAL PARAMETER SAVE
INTENT POINTER TARGET