Statement: Specifies the CHARACTER data type.
Syntax
If no kind type parameter is specified, the kind of the constant is default character.
Compatibility
CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB
See Also: Character Data Type, Character Constants, Character Substrings, C Strings, Declaration Statements for Character Types
Example
C
C Length of wt and vs is 10, city is 80, and ch is 1
C
CHARACTER wt*10, city*80, ch
CHARACTER (LEN = 10), PRIVATE :: vs
CHARACTER*(*) arg !declares a dummy argument
C name and plume are ten-element character arrays
C of length 20
CHARACTER name(10)*20
CHARACTER(len=20), dimension(10):: plume
C
C Length of susan, patty, and dotty are 2, alice is 12,
C jane is a 79-member array of length 2
C
CHARACTER(2) susan, patty, alice*12, dotty, jane(79)