Intel® Fortran Compiler

Developer Guide and Reference

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Date 3/31/2025
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Declarations for Arrays

An array declaration (or array declarator) declares the shape of an array. It takes the following form:

(a-spec)

a-spec

Is one of the following array specifications:

The array specification can be appended to the name of the array when the array is declared.

Examples

The following examples show array declarations:

SUBROUTINE SUB(N, C, D, Z) REAL, DIMENSION(N, 15) :: IARRY ! An explicit-shape array REAL C(:), D(0:) ! An assumed-shape array REAL, POINTER :: B(:,:) ! A deferred-shape array pointer REAL, ALLOCATABLE, DIMENSION(:) :: K ! A deferred-shape allocatable array REAL :: Z(N,*) ! An assumed-size array INTEGER, PARAMETER :: R(*) = [1,2,3] ! An implied-shape constant array