Type Conversion Functions

In Fortran 90 it is easy to explicitly transform the type of a constant or variable by using the in-built intrinsic functions.

• REAL(i) converts the integer i to the corresponding real approximation, the argument to REAL can be INTEGER, DOUBLE PRECISION or COMPLEX.
• INT(x) converts real x to the integer equivalent following the truncation rules given before. The argument to INT can be REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION or COMPLEX.
• Other functions may form integers from non-integer values:
  • CEILING(x) -- smallest integer greater or equal to x,
  • FLOOR(x) -- largest integer less or equal to x,
  • NINT(x) -- nearest integer to x.
• DBLE(a) converts a to DOUBLE PRECISION, the argument to DBLE can be INTEGER, REAL or COMPLEX.
• CMPLX(x) -- converts x to a complex value, .
• IACHAR(c) returns the position of CHARACTER c in the ASCII collating sequence, the argument must be a single CHARACTER.
• ACHAR(i) returns the character in the ASCII collating sequence, the argument ACHAR must be a single INTEGER.

For example,

    PRINT*, REAL(1), INT(1.7), INT(-0.9999)
    PRINT*, IACHAR('C'), ACHAR(67)

would give

    1.000000 1 0
    67 C

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