The GNU Fortran Compiler: ACHAR

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### 9.5 `ACHAR` — Character in ASCII collating sequence

Description:

  `ACHAR(I)` returns the character located at position `I` in the ASCII collating sequence.

Standard:

  Fortran 77 and later, with KIND argument Fortran 2003 and later

Class:

  Elemental function

Syntax:

  `RESULT = ACHAR(I [, KIND])`

Arguments:

  I | The type shall be `INTEGER`.
  KIND | (Optional) An `INTEGER` initialization expression indicating the kind parameter of the result.

Return value:

  The return value is of type `CHARACTER` with a length of one. If the KIND argument is present, the return value is of the specified kind and of the default kind otherwise.

Example:

      program test_achar
        character c
        c = achar(32)
      end program test_achar

Note:

  See ICHAR for a discussion of converting between numerical values and formatted string representations.

See also:

  CHAR, IACHAR, ICHAR