Option Arguments



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Option Arguments

 

Arguments  specifying options are usually of type CHARACTER*1. The meaning of each valid value is given , as in this example:

The corresponding lower-case characters may be supplied (with the same meaning), but any other value is illegal (see subsection 5.1.8).

A longer character string can be passed as the actual argument, making the calling program more readable, but only the first character is significant; this is a standard feature of Fortran 77. For example:

       CALL SPOTRS('upper', . . . )




Tue Nov 29 14:03:33 EST 1994