https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Format-Question/m-p/949786#M19216 Is there a command to convert a character string into a Real number string? If the variable X is initialized as a character and contains the character "3", how do I change it so that "X" is now a real variable containing the number "3"? <BR /> <BR />thanks. Wed, 02 May 2001 03:10:48 GMT waynebruce 2001-05-02T03:10:48Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Format-Question/m-p/949786#M19216 Is there a command to convert a character string into a Real number string? If the variable X is initialized as a character and contains the character "3", how do I change it so that "X" is now a real variable containing the number "3"? <BR /> <BR />thanks. Wed, 02 May 2001 03:10:48 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Format-Question/m-p/949786#M19216 waynebruce 2001-05-02T03:10:48Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Format-Question/m-p/949787#M19217 You can't have the same variable be both a character string and a numeric, but you can do something like this:<BR /><BR />READ (XSTRING,*) X<BR /><BR />where XSTRING is a CHARACTER variable containing the string "3" and X is a REAL variable. This is called "Internal READ" - look it up in the Compaq Fortran Language Reference Manual.<BR /><BR />Steve Wed, 02 May 2001 04:05:22 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Format-Question/m-p/949787#M19217 Steven_L_Intel1 2001-05-02T04:05:22Z