pm_str::getMinVal Interface Reference

Generate and return minimum character value in the input string(s).
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Detailed Description

Generate and return minimum character value in the input string(s).

Parameters

[in]	str	: The input scalar or array of arbitrary rank of type character of kind any supported by the processor (e.g., SK, SKA, SKD , or SKU) of arbitrary len type parameter.
[in]	mask	: The input vector of type logical of default kind LK of the same length as the len type parameter of the input str. If present, then only those characters of str corresponding to a .true. in mask will be considered to find minVal. When mask is present, str must be a scalar (the procedures are non-elemental when mask is present). (optional, default = [(.true., i = 1, len(str))])

Returns

minVal : The output scalar or array of the same type, kind, and rank as the input str but with a len type-parameter of 1 containing the character of minimum value in the input str.

Possible calling interfaces ⛓

use pm_str, only: getMinVal
character(1, kind(str)) :: minVal
 
minVal = getMinVal(str)
minVal = getMinVal(str, mask)

Warning

The input str must have non-zero len type-parameter.
The length of the input mask vector must equal the length of the input str.
These conditions are verified only if the library is built with the preprocessor macro CHECK_ENABLED=1.

The pure procedure(s) documented herein become impure when the ParaMonte library is compiled with preprocessor macro CHECK_ENABLED=1.
By default, these procedures are pure in release build and impure in debug and testing builds.

Remarks

Individual characters are compared using the Fortran intrinsic relational operators for objects of type character.

Note

The procedures under this generic interface are intended to (partially) overload the functionality of the Fortran intrinsic function minval to also accept input scalar string arguments.

See also

getMinLoc
getMaxLoc
getMinVal
getMaxVal

Example usage ⛓

program example
 
    use pm_kind, only: LK
    use pm_kind, only: SK ! all processor types and kinds are supported.
    use pm_io, only: display_type
    use pm_arrayFind, only: getLoc
    use pm_str, only: getMinVal
 
    implicit none
 
    logical(LK)     , allocatable :: Mask(:)
    character(:, SK), allocatable :: str
    integer :: i
 
    type(display_type) :: disp
    disp = display_type(file = "main.out.F90")
 
    call disp%skip()
    call disp%show("getMinVal(SK_'ParaMonte')")
    call disp%show( getMinVal(SK_'ParaMonte') , deliml = SK_"""" )
    call disp%skip()
 
    call disp%skip()
    call disp%show("getMinVal(SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library')")
    call disp%show( getMinVal(SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library') , deliml = SK_"""" )
    call disp%skip()
 
    call disp%skip()
    call disp%show("str = SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library'")
                    str = SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library'
    call disp%show("Mask = [logical(LK) :: (.true., i = 1, len(str))]; Mask(getLoc(str, SK_' ')) = .false._LK ! set all whitespace locations in the Mask to `.false.`")
                    Mask = [logical(LK) :: (.true., i = 1, len(str))]; Mask(getLoc(str, SK_' ')) = .false._LK ! set all whitespace locations in the Mask to `.false.`
    call disp%show("Mask")
    call disp%show( Mask )
    call disp%show("getMinVal(str, Mask)")
    call disp%show( getMinVal(str, Mask) , deliml = SK_"""" )
    call disp%show("getMinVal(str)")
    call disp%show( getMinVal(str) , deliml = SK_"""" )
    call disp%skip()
 
    call disp%skip()
    call disp%show("getMinVal([character(11,SK) :: 'The Fortran', 'Programming', 'Language']) ! Note that 'Language' is padded with blanks.")
    call disp%show( getMinVal([character(11,SK) :: 'The Fortran', 'Programming', 'Language']) , deliml = SK_"""" )
    call disp%skip()
 
end program example

Example Unix compile command via Intel ifort compiler ⛓

#!/usr/bin/env sh
rm main.exe
ifort -fpp -standard-semantics -O3 -Wl,-rpath,../../../lib -I../../../inc main.F90 ../../../lib/libparamonte* -o main.exe
./main.exe

Example Windows Batch compile command via Intel ifort compiler ⛓

del main.exe
set PATH=..\..\..\lib;%PATH%
ifort /fpp /standard-semantics /O3 /I:..\..\..\include main.F90 ..\..\..\lib\libparamonte*.lib /exe:main.exe
main.exe

Example Unix / MinGW compile command via GNU gfortran compiler ⛓

#!/usr/bin/env sh
rm main.exe
gfortran -cpp -ffree-line-length-none -O3 -Wl,-rpath,../../../lib -I../../../inc main.F90 ../../../lib/libparamonte* -o main.exe
./main.exe

Example output ⛓

 
getMinVal(SK_'ParaMonte')
"M"
 
 
getMinVal(SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library')
" "
 
 
str = SK_'The ParaMonte Parallel Library'
Mask = [logical(LK) :: (.true., i = 1, len(str))]; Mask(getLoc(str, SK_' ')) = .false._LK ! set all whitespace locations in the Mask to `.false.`
Mask
T, T, T, F, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, F, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, F, T, T, T, T, T, T, T
getMinVal(str, Mask)
"L"
getMinVal(str)
" "
 
 
getMinVal([character(11,SK) :: 'The Fortran', 'Programming', 'Language']) ! Note that 'Language' is padded with blanks.
" ", "P", " "
 
 

Test:

test_pm_str

Todo:

High Priority: The restriction on the non-zero length of the input string can be lifted to make the behavior compatible with the corresponding intrinsic routine.

Final Remarks ⛓

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Copyright

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Author:

Amir Shahmoradi, September 1, 2017, 12:00 AM, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), The University of Texas Austin

Definition at line 889 of file pm_str.F90.

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The documentation for this interface was generated from the following file:

• src/fortran/main/pm_str.F90