Character Declarations

Character variables are declared in a similar way to numeric types. CHARACTER variables can

• refer to one character;
• refer to a string of characters which is achieved by adding a length specifier to the object declaration.

The following are all valid declarations,

   CHARACTER(LEN=10)  :: name
   CHARACTER          :: sex
   CHARACTER(LEN=32)  :: str
   CHARACTER(LEN=10), DIMENSION(10,10) :: Harray
   CHARACTER(LEN=32), POINTER :: Pstr

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