Tom Hayward<p>*surely* there's some kind of shortcut to avoid counting letters in a Fortran constant string?</p><p>```<br>character(len=*), param :: mystring = "this is my string"<br>```<br>Why it this not legal?? Is the language so mean that I have to count and input the `len=`?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fortran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/F90" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>F90</span></a></p>