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Open Watcom FORTRAN 77 Language Reference

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1 <strong>FORTRAN</strong> Source Program Format<br />

1.1 Character Set<br />

The <strong>FORTRAN</strong> character set consists of twenty-six letters, ten digits, and thirteen special characters.<br />

The letters are:<br />

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />

The digits are: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9<br />

The special characters are:<br />

Character<br />

Name of Character<br />

Blank<br />

= Equals<br />

+ Plus<br />

- Minus<br />

* Asterisk<br />

/ Slash<br />

( Left Parenthesis<br />

) Right Parenthesis<br />

, Comma<br />

. Decimal Point<br />

$ Currency Symbol<br />

’ Apostrophe<br />

: Colon<br />

The <strong>FORTRAN</strong> character set is a subset of the character set of the computing system which you are using.<br />

We shall refer to the larger character set as the processor character set.<br />

1.2 Extended Character Set<br />

<strong>Open</strong> <strong>Watcom</strong> <strong>FORTRAN</strong> <strong>77</strong> also includes the following special characters.<br />

Character<br />

Name of Character<br />

! Exclamation Mark<br />

% Percentage Symbol<br />

\ Back slash<br />

Extended Character Set 3

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