Hi everyone, I am writing a code in perl to combine two euler matrices. As part of the code, I have a sub which converts the given euler angles to its corresponding rotation matrix. However, I seem to be having an issue returning the array in the sub. I have pasted the code of the sub below -
sub eul2mat { my $phi_rad=deg2rad($_[0]); my $theta_rad=deg2rad($_[1]); my $psi_rad=deg2rad($_[2]); print "$phi_rad $theta_rad $psi_rad\n"; my @rot_mat; $rot_mat[0][0]=cos($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad)-sin +($phi_rad)*sin($psi_rad); $rot_mat[0][1]=cos($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad)+sin +($phi_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[0][2]=-cos($phi_rad)*sin($theta_rad); $rot_mat[1][0]=-sin($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad)-si +n($psi_rad)*cos($phi_rad); $rot_mat[1][1]=-sin($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad)+co +s($phi_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[1][2]=sin($phi_rad)*sin($theta_rad); $rot_mat[2][0]=sin($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[2][1]=sin($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad); $rot_mat[2][2]=cos($theta_rad); print "@rot_mat"; print "\n"; return @rot_mat; }
I was able to take the three angles into the sub but when I compute the matrix and return it, I get the reference to the array instead of the array itself. I am not sure why that is happening. Here is what the output looks like -
0 0 0 ARRAY(0xad80a0) ARRAY(0xad8190) ARRAY(0xb4f618) 2.10905464637947 0.019391480654283 -2.12295165601555 ARRAY(0xad80a0) ARRAY(0xad8190) ARRAY(0xb4f618)
Am I making a silly mistake? Did I miss something?

Update: Thank you everyone. Here is the final code which works perfectly.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use feature qw/ say /; BEGIN { use constant PI => 3.14159265358979; sub deg2rad { my $degrees = shift; return ($degrees / 180) * PI; } sub rad2deg { my $radians = shift; return ($radians / PI) * 180; } } my $num_args=$#ARGV+1; if($num_args < 3) { print "Usage: combine_doc.pl <doc_file_1> <doc_file_2> <combin +ed_doc>\n"; exit; } chomp(my $indoc_file1_name=$ARGV[0]); chomp(my $indoc_file2_name=$ARGV[1]); chomp(my $outdoc_file_name=$ARGV[2]); open INDOC1,"<$indoc_file1_name" || die "Can't open file: $!"; my $line=0; my @data; my @data_doc1; my $i=0; foreach (<INDOC1>) { if($line==0) { $line++; } elsif($line%2!=0) { @data=split(" ",$_); $data_doc1[$i]=$data[1]; $i++; $line++; } else { @data=split(" ",$_); $data_doc1[$i]=$data[2]; $data_doc1[$i+1]=$data[3]; $data_doc1[$i+2]=$data[4]; $data_doc1[$i+3]=$data[5]; $data_doc1[$i+4]=$data[6]; $data_doc1[$i+5]=$data[7]; $i+=6; $line++; } } print scalar(@data_doc1); print "\n"; #print "@data_doc1"; #print "\n"; open INDOC2,"<$indoc_file2_name" || die "Can't open file: $!"; $line=0; my @data_doc2; $i=0; foreach (<INDOC2>) { if($line==0) { $line++; } elsif($line%2!=0) { @data=split(" ",$_); $data_doc2[$i]=$data[1]; $i++; $line++; } else { @data=split(" ",$_); $data_doc2[$i]=$data[2]; $data_doc2[$i+1]=$data[3]; $data_doc2[$i+2]=$data[4]; $data_doc2[$i+3]=$data[5]; $data_doc2[$i+4]=$data[6]; $data_doc2[$i+5]=$data[7]; $i+=6; $line++; } } #print scalar(@data_doc2); #print "\n"; #print "@data_doc2"; #print "\n"; open OUTDOC,">$outdoc_file_name" || die "Can't open file: $!"; print OUTDOC " ; Headerinfo columns: rot (1), tilt (2), psi (3), Xoff +(4), Yoff (5), Zoff (6), Ref (7), Wedge (8), Pmax/sumP (9), LL (10)\n +"; my $rot_mat1; my $rot_mat2; my $part_id; my $cbn_mat; my @cbn_angles; my @cbn_shifts; for($i=1;$i<scalar(@data_doc1);$i+=7) { #print "$i $data_doc1[$i] $data_doc1[$i+1] $data_doc1[$i+2]\n" +; #print "$i $data_doc2[$i] $data_doc2[$i+1] $data_doc2[$i+2]\n" +; $rot_mat1=eul2mat($data_doc1[$i],$data_doc1[$i+1],$data_doc1[$ +i+2]); #Catch the reference to the first matrix $rot_mat2=eul2mat($data_doc2[$i],$data_doc2[$i+1],$data_doc2[$ +i+2]); #Catch the reference to the second matrix $cbn_mat=mat_multiply($rot_mat1,$rot_mat2); #Multiply the two +matrices @cbn_angles=mat2eul($cbn_mat); #Convert the matrix back to eul +er print "@cbn_angles"; print "\n"; $cbn_shifts[0]=$data_doc1[$i+3]+$data_doc2[$i+3]; $cbn_shifts[1]=$data_doc1[$i+4]+$data_doc2[$i+4]; $cbn_shifts[2]=$data_doc1[$i+5]+$data_doc2[$i+5]; print OUTDOC " ; $data_doc1[$i-1]\n"; $part_id=(($i-1)/7)+1; printf OUTDOC "%6d%3d%11.5f%11.5f%11.5f%11.5f%11.5f%11.5f%11.5 +f%11.5f%11.5f%11.5f\n",$part_id,10,$cbn_angles[0],$cbn_angles[1],$cbn +_angles[2],$cbn_shifts[0],$cbn_shifts[1],$cbn_shifts[2],1,1,0,0; } sub eul2mat { my $phi_rad=deg2rad($_[0]); my $theta_rad=deg2rad($_[1]); my $psi_rad=deg2rad($_[2]); #print "$phi_rad $theta_rad $psi_rad\n"; my @rot_mat; $rot_mat[0][0]=cos($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad)-sin +($phi_rad)*sin($psi_rad); $rot_mat[0][1]=cos($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad)+sin +($phi_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[0][2]=-cos($phi_rad)*sin($theta_rad); $rot_mat[1][0]=-sin($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad)-si +n($psi_rad)*cos($phi_rad); $rot_mat[1][1]=-sin($phi_rad)*cos($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad)+co +s($phi_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[1][2]=sin($phi_rad)*sin($theta_rad); $rot_mat[2][0]=sin($theta_rad)*cos($psi_rad); $rot_mat[2][1]=sin($theta_rad)*sin($psi_rad); $rot_mat[2][2]=cos($theta_rad); #say Dumper \@rot_mat; return \@rot_mat; } sub mat_multiply { my ($mat1,$mat2)=@_; my ($i,$j,$k); my $result_mat=[]; for $i (0..2) { for $j (0..2) { for $k (0..2) { $result_mat->[$i][$j]+=$mat1->[$i][$k] + * $mat2->[$k][$j]; } } } return $result_mat; } sub mat2eul { my @cbn_mat=@{$_[0]}; my $theta_deg=rad2deg(atan2((sqrt($cbn_mat[2][0]**2+$cbn_mat[2 +][1]**2)),$cbn_mat[2][2])); my $phi_deg=rad2deg(atan2(($cbn_mat[1][2]/sin(deg2rad($theta_d +eg))),(-$cbn_mat[0][2]/sin(deg2rad($theta_deg))))); my $psi_deg=rad2deg(atan2(($cbn_mat[2][1]/sin(deg2rad($theta_d +eg))),($cbn_mat[2][0]/sin(deg2rad($theta_deg))))); return ($theta_deg,$phi_deg,$psi_deg); }
The program reads two files and pulls out euler angles from them which need to be combined and writes the combined output to another file. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions on the way it is written (i.e. if you think some things can be written in a different way). I would definitely like to improve the way I write my programs. Thank you all once again.


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