Re: Allocatable Arrays As Outputs

Craig Dedo <cdedo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using allocatable arrays is preferable to using pointers to
allocatable arrays, as suggested by another poster. Direct use of
allocatables is easier to understand and easier to avoid troublesome
mistakes.

While I agree with the above advise in general, please note that none of
the other posters suggested using pointers to allocatables.... unless
there was some post that didn't (yet?) make it to my server. There was a
suggestion to use pointer instead of allocatable, but that's a different
thing. (I recommend against it also).

In order to use allocatables in your procedures, you need to add the
"Allocatable" attribute to the declaration of your arrays in the main program.
E.g., you would write:
Character (Len=8), Allocatable :: propertyNames(:)

And the explicit interface, as mentioned by others.

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