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Mo Yun <moyun@chem-eng.kyushu-u.ac.jp> wrote in article
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> I don't know what is the meaning of the "$" that is in following parameter
> statements ? 
> Could anyone can help me?  Thank you.  Please also give me a e-mail.
> 
> 
> 
>       parameter(n$=160,   m$=60)
>       parameter(n1$=n$+1, m1$=m$+1,     n2$=n$+2, m2$=m$+2)

No *standard* Fortran program may use the '$' character anywhere except 
within a character string or hollerith string, or within a comment.  So, there 
is no easy way to answer your question.

A guess (and this is rampant speculation) is that you may have inherited
some code from someone who wrote their own preprocessor or macro
substitution tool and used the '$' as a trigger (and to make sure the
preprocessor objects were never confused with ordinary Fortran symbols).

Just a guess, for whatever it's worth.

-- 
J. Giles
Ricercar Software