13.3.3. NAPI Fortran 90 InterfaceΒΆ

The Fortran 90 interface is a wrapper to the C interface with nearly identical routine definitions. As with the Fortran 77 interface, it is necessary to reverse the order of indices in multidimensional arrays, compared to an equivalent C program, so that data are stored in the same order in the NeXus file.

Any program using the F90 API needs to put the following line at the top (after the PROGRAM statement):

use NXmodule

Use the following table to convert from the C data types listed with each routine to the Fortran 90 data types.

C data type

F90 data type

int, int

integer

char*

character(len=*)

NXhandle, NXhandle*

type(NXhandle)

NXstatus

integer

int[]

integer(:)

void*

real(:) or integer(:) or character(len=*)

NXlink a, NXlink* a

type(NXlink)

The parameters in the next table, defined in NXmodule, may be used in defining variables.

Name

Description

Value

NX_MAXRANK

Maximum number of dimensions

32

NX_MAXNAMELEN

Maximum length of NeXus name

64

NXi1

Kind parameter for a 1-byte integer

selected_int_kind(2)

NXi2

Kind parameter for a 2-byte integer

selected_int_kind(4)

NXi4

Kind parameter for a 4-byte integer

selected_int_kind(8)

NXr4

Kind parameter for a 4-byte real

kind(1.0)

NXr8

Kind parameter for an 8-byte real

kind(1.0D0)

The bindings are listed at https://github.com/nexusformat/code/tree/master/bindings/f90 and can be built as part of the API distribution https://github.com/nexusformat/code/releases