B.1 Fortran Character Set

The Fortran character set consists of the following:

Character  Name  Character  Name 
Δ  or TAB   Space or tab  Apostrophe 
Equal sign   "  Quotation mark 
Plus sign  Dollar sign 
Minus sign  _   Underscore 
Asterisk  !   Exclamation point 
Slash  Colon 
Left parenthesis   <  Left angle bracket 
Right parenthesis   >  Right angle bracket 
Comma  %   Percent sign 
Period  &   Ampersand 

Other printing characters can appear in a Fortran statement only as part of a Hollerith or character constant. Any printing character can appear in a comment. Printing characters are characters whose codes are in the hexadecimal range 20 through 7E, or A1 through FE. (See Figures B-1 and B-2.)


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