# <span class='text-muted'>010.</span> Fortran arrays can have any lower bound (the default is 1)

<span style='font-size: small;' class='text-muted'>topic: {ref}`arrays`</span>

Fortran arrays can have any lower bound. 
The default is 1.
Array functions have optional mask arguments to determine the elements used.    

```{literalinclude} ../../src/array-lbound.f90
:language: fortran
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```{code-block} text
:caption: Output[^gfortran-version]

          -1           1           3
           2
           4

```

[^gfortran-version]: Compiled using `GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.3.0` with no flags

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fortran arrays can have any lower bound. <br>The default is 1. Array functions have optional mask arguments to determine the elements used.<br><br>integer :: v(-1:1) = [1,-2,3]<br>print*,lbound(v),ubound(v),size(v) ! -1 1 3<br>print*,sum(v) ! 2<br>print*,sum(v,mask=v&gt;0) ! 4 -- sum excludes -2<br>end</p>&mdash; FortranTip (@fortrantip) <a href="https://twitter.com/fortrantip/status/1471997763848183810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>