string Module Reference

Definition

Represents text as a sequence of ASCII code units. The derived type wraps an allocatable character array.

Examples

type(string) :: s
s = 'foo'

Remarks

The string implementation proposed here is kept at the bare minimum of what is required by the library. There are many other implementations that can be found.

Constructors

Initializes a new instance of the string class

string(character(:))

type(string) function string(character(:) chars) 

Parameters

[in]

chars

Examples

type(string) :: s
s = string('foo')

Definition at line 37 of file String.f90.

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The documentation for this module was generated from the following file:

• String.f90

Variables
character(:), allocatable	chars
	Variable length character array.

Methods

assignment() [1/2]

generic, public assignment	(	class(string), intent(inout)	lhs,
		character(*), intent(in)	rhs )

Assignment overloading. Assign a character array to a string.

Parameters

[in,out]	lhs	string
[in]	rhs	character(*)

Examples

type(string) :: s
 
s = 'foo'

Remarks

Definition at line 43 of file String.f90.

assignment() [2/2]

generic, public assignment	(	character(*), intent(inout), allocatable	lhs,
		class(string), intent(in)	rhs )

Assignment overloading. Assign a string to a character array.

Parameters

[in,out]	lhs	character(*), allocatable
[in]	rhs	string

Examples

type(string) :: s
character(:), allocatable :: c
 
s = 'foo'
c = s
! the value of c is now 'foo'

Remarks

Definition at line 43 of file String.f90.

len()

procedure, pass, public len

(

class(string), intent(in)

this

)

Length of the string entity.

Parameters

[in]

this

string

Examples

type(string) :: s
integer :: l
 
s = string('foo')
l = s%len()
! the value of l is 3

Returns

An integer cooresponding to the length of the string

Definition at line 40 of file String.f90.