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  69. <h4 class="subsection">6.1.13 Hollerith constants support</h4>
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  71. <p>GNU Fortran supports Hollerith constants in assignments, function
  72. arguments, and <code>DATA</code> and <code>ASSIGN</code> statements. A Hollerith
  73. constant is written as a string of characters preceded by an integer
  74. constant indicating the character count, and the letter <code>H</code> or
  75. <code>h</code>, and stored in bytewise fashion in a numeric (<code>INTEGER</code>,
  76. <code>REAL</code>, or <code>complex</code>) or <code>LOGICAL</code> variable. The
  77. constant will be padded or truncated to fit the size of the variable in
  78. which it is stored.
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  80. <p>Examples of valid uses of Hollerith constants:
  81. </p><div class="smallexample">
  82. <pre class="smallexample"> complex*16 x(2)
  83. data x /16Habcdefghijklmnop, 16Hqrstuvwxyz012345/
  84. x(1) = 16HABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
  85. call foo (4h abc)
  86. </pre></div>
  87. <p>Invalid Hollerith constants examples:
  88. </p><div class="smallexample">
  89. <pre class="smallexample"> integer*4 a
  90. a = 8H12345678 ! Valid, but the Hollerith constant will be truncated.
  91. a = 0H ! At least one character is needed.
  92. </pre></div>
  93. <p>In general, Hollerith constants were used to provide a rudimentary
  94. facility for handling character strings in early Fortran compilers,
  95. prior to the introduction of <code>CHARACTER</code> variables in Fortran 77;
  96. in those cases, the standard-compliant equivalent is to convert the
  97. program to use proper character strings. On occasion, there may be a
  98. case where the intent is specifically to initialize a numeric variable
  99. with a given byte sequence. In these cases, the same result can be
  100. obtained by using the <code>TRANSFER</code> statement, as in this example.
  101. </p><div class="smallexample">
  102. <pre class="smallexample"> INTEGER(KIND=4) :: a
  103. a = TRANSFER (&quot;abcd&quot;, a) ! equivalent to: a = 4Habcd
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