<html lang="en"> <head> <title>NEW_LINE - The GNU Fortran Compiler</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="The GNU Fortran Compiler"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Intrinsic-Procedures.html#Intrinsic-Procedures" title="Intrinsic Procedures"> <link rel="prev" href="NEAREST.html#NEAREST" title="NEAREST"> <link rel="next" href="NINT.html#NINT" title="NINT"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="NEW_LINE"></a> <a name="NEW_005fLINE"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="NINT.html#NINT">NINT</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="NEAREST.html#NEAREST">NEAREST</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Intrinsic-Procedures.html#Intrinsic-Procedures">Intrinsic Procedures</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">8.179 <code>NEW_LINE</code> — New line character</h3> <p><a name="index-NEW_005fLINE-879"></a><a name="index-newline-880"></a><a name="index-output_002c-newline-881"></a> <dl> <dt><em>Description</em>:<dd><code>NEW_LINE(C)</code> returns the new-line character. <br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>Fortran 2003 and later <br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Inquiry function <br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd><code>RESULT = NEW_LINE(C)</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%">The argument shall be a scalar or array of the type <code>CHARACTER</code>. <br></td></tr></table> <br><dt><em>Return value</em>:<dd>Returns a <var>CHARACTER</var> scalar of length one with the new-line character of the same kind as parameter <var>C</var>. <br><dt><em>Example</em>:<dd> <pre class="smallexample"> program newline implicit none write(*,'(A)') 'This is record 1.'//NEW_LINE('A')//'This is record 2.' end program newline </pre> </dl> </body></html>