IACHAR — Code in ASCII collating sequence¶

IACHAR(C)¶

IACHAR(C) returns the code for the ASCII character in the first character position of C.

Parameters

C – Shall be a scalar CHARACTER, with INTENT(IN)
KIND – (Optional) An INTEGER initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result.

Returns

The return value is of type INTEGER and of kind KIND. If KIND is absent, the return value is of default integer kind.

Standard:: Fortran 95 and later, with KIND argument Fortran 2003 and later
Class:: Elemental function

Syntax:

RESULT = IACHAR(C [, KIND])

Example:

program test_iachar
  integer i
  i = iachar(' ')
end program test_iachar

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