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─────Data-Conversion Functions──────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     INT converts arguments to integers.
 
     INT1 converts its arguments to INTEGER*1. INT2 and HFIX convert
     their arguments to INTEGER*2. INT4 and JFIX convert their
     arguments to INTEGER*4.
 
     INTC converts arguments to C integers. IFIX and IDINT convert
     single- or double-precision arguments, respectively, to integers.
 
     REAL converts arguments to single-precision numbers. If gen is
     complex, REAL(gen) equals the real part of gen. FLOAT and SNGL
     convert numbers to the single-precision real data type. DBLE
     converts numbers to the double-precision real data type. DREAL
     converts COMPLEX*16 numbers to double-precision real numbers by
     deleting the imaginary part.
 
     CMPLX and DCMPLX convert numbers to the complex data types. If
     only one argument, gen, is specified, gen can be an integer, a
     real, a double-precision, or a complex number. If gen is complex,
     CMPLX(gen) equals gen. If gen is an integer, a real, or a double-
     precision number, the real part of the result equals REAL(gen)
     and the imaginary part equals 0.0. If two arguments, genA and
     genB, are specified, both must have the same type. In this case,
     the real part of the result equals REAL(genA), and the imaginary
     part of the result equals REAL(genB).
 
     The ICHAR intrinsic function translates ASCII characters into
     integers, and the CHAR intrinsic function translates integers
     into ASCII characters. (The ASCII character set is listed in
     Appendix A, "ASCII Character Codes.") The argument of ICHAR must
     be a single character.
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