Declaring multiple character variable.

I need to convert a certain fortran program in C.
The fortran has a statement as follows:
implicit real*8 (a-h,o-z)
In the above statement a series of character variable a-h and o-z is declared in one single statement. (i.e. a, b, c ...h) and so on.
I want to know if C has any equivalent statement that would enable me to declare multiple variable in one single statement.
Thanks

a-h are variable identifiers or the values of the variables?

The best you could do is an array.

Code:

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char arry[26];

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or if you want, you could just use commas

Code:

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char a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z;

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That's a single statement. :)

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

a-h are variable identifiers or the values of the variables?

The best you could do is an array.

Code:

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char arry[26];

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or if you want, you could just use commas

Code:

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char a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z;

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That's a single statement. :)

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a-h are actually variable identifiers. I know declaring
char a,b,c,d,e,f.....;
but shouldn't there be a short cut, i mean think of it just a-h

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Originally Posted by rajabadsha

a-h are actually variable identifiers. I know declaring
char a,b,c,d,e,f.....;
but shouldn't there be a short cut, i mean think of it just a-h

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Sorry I meant
int a, b, c, d, e....

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Originally Posted by rajabadsha

but shouldn't there be a short cut, i mean think of it just a-h

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Why? I can't think of any circumstance in which I ever needed that many non-descriptive, distinct variables in C. What would they be used for?

If I saw a program that used that many non-descript variables in one scope I'd immediately suspect a need for redesign.

Seriously, I would say that shortcut is probably one of the worst features I've ever seen about FORTRAN. How could the possibly be so implicit. There isn't a single programmer that doesn't know FORTRAN that would take "a-h" as creating variables with the names from a to h.

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

Seriously, I would say that shortcut is probably one of the worst features I've ever seen about FORTRAN. How could the possibly be so implicit. There isn't a single programmer that doesn't know FORTRAN that would take "a-h" as creating variables with the names from a to h.

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When I see 'a-h' I think of pattern matching immediately