allocated

Date:: 10-12-2011

NAME

ALLOCATED - Returns the status of an allocated variable

SYNOPSIS

ALLOCATED ([ARRAY=]array)
ALLOCATED ([SCALAR=]scalar)

STANDARDS

Fortran

DESCRIPTION

The ALLOCATED intrinsic function indicates whether or not an allocated variable is currently allocated. It accepts the following arguments:

array: Must be an allocatable array
scalar: Must be an allocatable scalar

ALLOCATED is an inquiry function. The name of this intrinsic cannot be passed as an argument.

RETURN VALUES

The result type, type parameter, and shape are default logical scalar. The result has the value .TRUE. if array or scalar is currently allocated and has the value .FALSE. if array or scalar is not currently allocated.

The result is undefined if the allocation status of array or scalar is undefined.