IACHAR

Elemental Intrinsic Function (Generic): Returns the position of a character in the ASCII character set, even if the processor's default character set is different. In Compaq Fortran, IACHAR is equivalent to the ICHAR function.

Syntax

result = IACHAR (c)

c
(Input) Must be of type character of length 1.

Results:

The result is of type default integer. If c is in the ASCII collating sequence, the result is the position of c in that sequence and satisfies the inequality (0 <= IACHAR(c) <= 127).

The results must be consistent with the LGE, LGT, LLE, and LLT lexical comparison functions. For example, if LLE(C, D) is true, IACHAR(C) .LE. IACHAR(D) is also true.

Compatibility

CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB

See Also: ASCII and Key Code Charts, ACHAR, CHAR, ICHAR, LGE, LGT, LLE, LLT

Examples

IACHAR ( 'Y' ) has the value 89.

IACHAR ( '%' ) has the value 37.