Generating a Nonprinting Character with the CHAR Function

 Last reviewed: December 11, 1995
Article ID: Q49528
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft FORTRAN for MS-DOS and OS/2, versions 4.0, 4.01, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1
  • Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation for MS-DOS, versions 1.0 and 1.0a
  • Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 32 for Windows NT, version 1.0 and 4.0

SUMMARY

An application developed in Microsoft FORTRAN can use the CHAR intrinsic function to create any character in the ASCII character set including the so-called "control" characters. The CHAR intrinsic function takes an INTEGER as an argument and returns a CHARACTER.

The following code example sends a nonprinting character, a carriage return, to the screen.

Sample Code

C Compile options needed: None 

      WRITE (*, '(1X, A1)') CHAR(13)
      END

Additional reference words: kbinf 1.00 4.00 4.01 4.10 5.00 5.10 ASCII ctrl-
z escape esc lf linefeed
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: FORTLngIss

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Last reviewed: December 11, 1995
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