.NE. (/=) operator
Standard: (F77) F90 F95 F2003
  Example Program
<Syntax>
expression .NE. expression
expression /= expression

Each expression must be of type Integer, Real, Complex or Character.
<Semantics>
Tests two expressions for inequality, returning a default logical result. The expressions must be of type Integer, Real, Complex, or Character; if one expression is of type Character both must be.

Note that in the case of type Real, negative zero is not considered to be different from positive zero.
<Related>
.AND. operator, Concatenation (//) operator, .EQ. (==) operator, .EQV. operator, .GE. (>=) operator, .GT. (>) operator, .LE. (<=) operator, .LT. (<) operator, .NEQV. operator, .NOT. operator, Numeric operators, Operator precedence, .OR. operator