RANK (The GNU Fortran Compiler)

### 8.237 `RANK` — Rank of a data object ¶

Synopsis:

  `RESULT = RANK(A)`

Description:

  `RANK(A)` returns the rank of a scalar or array data object.

Class:

  Inquiry function

Arguments:

  A | can be of any type

Return value:

  The return value is of type `INTEGER` and of the default integer kind. For arrays, their rank is returned; for scalars zero is returned.

Example:

      program test_rank
        integer :: a
        real, allocatable :: b(:,:)

        print *, rank(a), rank(b) ! Prints:  0  2
      end program test_rank

Standard:

  Technical Specification (TS) 29113