Converting character string to integer

Question

This is a follow up to my get_command_argument() question.

I\'m reading a command line argument (arg) into a Fortran program. Then I want to store the value

Answer 1

You want to use the "internal files" capability. You should have a statement like read(arg,*) j. This will read the character variable arg as if it were a file and store the result into j.