VMS Help FORTRAN, Statements, Assignment  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Assigns the value of the expression to the variable.
  Arithmetic/Logical/Character assignment takes the form:

     v = e

     v  Is a scalar memory reference.

     e  Is an arithmetic expression (arithmetic assignment),
        a character scalar memory reference (character assignment),
        or a logical scalar memory reference (logical assignment).

  The right side of the equation must evaluate to a data type
  compatible with the variable on the left side.  If aggregates are
  involved, the aggregate reference and the aggregate must have
  matching structures.

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