Re: variable length strings

From: robin (robin_v_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:28:26 GMT

Do you have an explicit interface?

Mr. Adam Burry wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm going blind reading the documentation shipped with Compaq Visual
> Fortran.
>
> How does one normally pass strings around in Fortran? My readng
> suggests that they always have to be of known length. My compiler does
> not seem to like the following, for example:
>
> SUBROUTINE Set_Filename ( strFilename )
> CHARACTER(LEN=*) strFilename
> ! some code
> END SUBROUTINE
>
> But it is happy with: "CHARACTER(LEN=60)", for example. Is this like
> saying char[60] in C? Isn't that evil?
>
> I'm coming from a C++ background.
>
> Adam 

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