...22:20, Ragu <ssragun...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a simple question regarding allocating a character array that can represent a line in an input file. I am writing a small function that can read a line from an input file, strip the Fortran 90 style comments (Exclamation mark) and return the string. You can have a look at my Flibs project (http://flibs.sf.net): it...

...sep, 22:20, Ragu <ssragun...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a simple question regarding allocating a character array that can represent a line in an input file. I am writing a small function that can read a line from an input file, strip the Fortran 90 style comments (Exclamation mark) and return the string. You can have a look at my Flibs project (http://flibs.sf.net): it...

.... They aren't "pointers" in any sense known to the language, but you can think of an array index as in some sense pointing to a location in the array. That's perfectly standard and portable. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

.... One of the ones much used in "old times" was to put that one array in blank common and count on being able to exceed its declared bounds to get at memory that wasn't otherwise being used. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

...(aliasing, strides), and in things that the compiler is required to handle (automatic allocation/deallocation/initialization/etc.) But if you look at memory layout, they are probably the same. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

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...is dynamic allocation of the length of a character string. In f2003, that's pretty straightforward. You just make the character allocatable length and use an allocate statement (... needed). But f95 doesn't have allocatable character length, and that doesn't appear to ... name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle           |  -- Mark Twain

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