June 8 2007 7:18:49.153 AM CHAR_ALLOC: FORTRAN90 version. Investigate some options for declaration of CHARACTER variables. TEST01 Test the use of fixed length but unknown dimension: CHARACTER ( LEN = 1 ), ALLOCATABLE, DIMENSION ( : ) ::CH_VEC We allocate 52 entries in the string. Here is the string after use: "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz" TEST02 Test the use of fixed length but unknown dimension: CHARACTER ( LEN = 2 ), ALLOCATABLE, DIMENSION ( : ) ::CH_VEC We allocate 26 entries in the string. Here is the string after use: "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz" June 8 2007 7:18:49.153 AM