ACHAR — Character in ASCII collating sequence

Description

ACHAR(I) returns the character located at position I in the ASCII collating sequence.

Syntax

RESULT = ACHAR(I [, KIND])

Arguments

I The type shall be INTEGER.
KIND (Optional) An INTEGER initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result.

Return value

The return value is of type CHARACTER with a length of one. If the KIND argument is present, the return value is of the specified kind and of the default kind otherwise.

Example



program test_achar

  character c

  c = achar(32)

end program test_achar

Notes

See ICHAR for a discussion of converting between numerical values and formatted string representations.

Standard

Fortran 77 and later, with KIND argument Fortran 2003 and later

Class

Elemental function

`I`	The type shall be `INTEGER`.
`KIND`	(Optional) An `INTEGER` initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result.