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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: accessing character arrays...
Message-ID: <4071@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 11:56:46 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4071
Posted: Thu Dec  4 11:56:46 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 01:45:50 EST
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Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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In article <1772@ncoast.UUCP> btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
>how do you access characters in arrays of character*n?
>
>I am using Vax Fortran, and would like to access individual characters in
>an array of character*n:
>
>	character*n	a(m)
>
>I want it to be "m lines of n character 'strings'", but fortran won't let
>me access character y in "line" x with:
>
>		a(x,y), or a(x)(y)...
>

	try   a(x)(y:y)  where (x,x,x,...) are array delimiters, and 
(n:m) are substring specifiers...

-ed cetron
Center for Engineering Design
Univ of Utah