Generating a Nonprinting Character with the CHAR Function (49528)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler for MS-DOS 4.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler for MS-DOS 4.01
  • Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler for MS-DOS 4.1
  • Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler for MS-DOS 5.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler for MS-DOS 5.1
  • Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation for MS-DOS 1.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation for MS-DOS 1.0a
  • Microsoft Fortran Powerstation 32 for Windows NT 1.0
  • Microsoft Fortran Powerstation 32 for Windows NT 4.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 4.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 4.01
  • Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 4.1
  • Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 5.0
  • Microsoft FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 5.1
This article was previously published under Q49528

SUMMARY

An application developed in Microsoft FORTRAN can use the CHAR intrinsic function to create any character in the ASCII character set including the so-called "control" characters. The CHAR intrinsic function takes an INTEGER as an argument and returns a CHARACTER.

The following code example sends a nonprinting character, a carriage return, to the screen.

Sample Code

C Compile options needed: None

      WRITE (*, '(1X, A1)') CHAR(13)
      END
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:12/1/2003
Keywords:kbLangFortran KB49528
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