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The correspondence between characters and their codes is not necessarily the same across different GNU Fortran implementations. <br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>Fortran 95 and later, with <var>KIND</var> argument Fortran 2003 and later <br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Elemental function <br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd><code>RESULT = ICHAR(C [, KIND])</code> <br><dt><em>Arguments</em>:<dd> <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>C</var> </td><td valign="top" width="70%">Shall be a scalar <code>CHARACTER</code>, with <code>INTENT(IN)</code> <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>KIND</var> </td><td valign="top" width="70%">(Optional) An <code>INTEGER</code> initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result. <br></td></tr></table> <br><dt><em>Return value</em>:<dd>The return value is of type <code>INTEGER</code> and of kind <var>KIND</var>. If <var>KIND</var> is absent, the return value is of default integer kind. <br><dt><em>Example</em>:<dd> <pre class="smallexample"> program test_ichar integer i i = ichar(' ') end program test_ichar </pre> <br><dt><em>Specific names</em>:<dd> <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%">Name </td><td valign="top" width="20%">Argument </td><td valign="top" width="20%">Return type </td><td valign="top" width="25%">Standard <br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%"><code>ICHAR(C)</code> </td><td valign="top" width="20%"><code>CHARACTER C</code> </td><td valign="top" width="20%"><code>INTEGER(4)</code> </td><td valign="top" width="25%">Fortran 77 and later <br></td></tr></table> <br><dt><em>Note</em>:<dd>No intrinsic exists to convert between a numeric value and a formatted character string representation – for instance, given the <code>CHARACTER</code> value <code>'154'</code>, obtaining an <code>INTEGER</code> or <code>REAL</code> value with the value 154, or vice versa. Instead, this functionality is provided by internal-file I/O, as in the following example: <pre class="smallexample"> program read_val integer value character(len=10) string, string2 string = '154' ! Convert a string to a numeric value read (string,'(I10)') value print *, value ! Convert a value to a formatted string write (string2,'(I10)') value print *, string2 end program read_val </pre> <br><dt><em>See also</em>:<dd><a href="ACHAR.html#ACHAR">ACHAR</a>, <a href="CHAR.html#CHAR">CHAR</a>, <a href="IACHAR.html#IACHAR">IACHAR</a> </dl> </body></html>