ACHAR — Character in ASCII collating sequence¶

ACHAR(I)¶

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

Parameters

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

Returns

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.

Standard:: Fortran 77 and later, with KIND argument Fortran 2003 and later
Class:: Elemental function

Syntax:

RESULT = ACHAR(I [, KIND])

Example:

program test_achar
  character c
  c = achar(32)
end program test_achar

Note:: See ICHAR for a discussion of converting between numerical values and formatted string representations.
See also:: CHAR, IACHAR, ICHAR