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Greetings,
I have a function that scans a character array looking for a set of defined delimiters (space, coma, slash, etc.) and returns the "field", a copy of the original array without the "field" and delimiter, and the delimiter. In some cases I then want to concatenate the delimiter to the "field" and continue scanning.
For example: array = "This is a test/and an example, and another thing"
Let's say I want to retain all the text up to the comma, so successive calls return:
"This", "is", "a", all with delimiter space. For the output these, with their delimiters are concatenated to "This is a "
"test" with delimiter slash. When I try to concatenate "test" and "/", I then get "This is a test ".
I suspect the compiler gets confused here and is treating the single slash as a meta-character or something.
I just thought I can test for the delimiter being a slash and concatenate CHAR(47)...
If I didn't just answer my own question, or if I did, please let me know. lol
Take care,
Lee B.
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You haven't shown any code. But a common problem is users not understanding that Fortran character variables are fixed-size, so if you do something like this:
character(20) :: string string = 'ABCDEF' string = string // '/' print *, string end
You won't see the slash. Why? Because the result of the concatenation is 21 characters and the 21st gets dropped when assigned to the 20-character variable.
Might this be your issue? If so, TRIM is your friend.
Edit: Deferred-length allocatable character variables are different, but you're probably not using them here.
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In case what Steve wrote isn't crystal clear:
In his example,
string = 'ABCDEF'
actuallly means
string = 'ABCDEF '
i.e. there are 14 spaces after ABCDEF, since string is 20 characters long, and a character variable is always padded with spaces to its declared length. To append a '/' after 'F', it is necessary to append the extra character after trimming off the added spaces:
string = trim(string) // '/'
which gives
string = 'ABCDEF/ '
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