Wow--thank you for such a thorough response! I learned a lot from it! MPI is installed the parallel computer, I just have not yet learned how to use it. I am going to save parallelization for last.

Should I fail to find (as I have so far) a module/program/script that is as good or better than what I develop, I was hoping to publish my program under GNU or some open source type system in which others can use and modify my code, but I can still receive some recognition solely for something to put on a resume. Therefore, I am a bit reluctant to put the full code up--thank you for understanding. On the other hand, I could really use the help...so how about pseudocode? 
sub mysub{
create a hash with keywords,inputparameters=@_;
replace all kewords in some file with their respective inputparameters
+>inputfile_name.ext;
`some_program inputfile_name.ext outputfile`;
return the number next to some string in "outputfile";
}

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That is the jest of it. It is of course broken up into a few subroutines and they are written in two separate files, but if I condensed everything into one subroutine, that is basically what it would do. I think have the details of making, storing, and parsing those files down pretty well (and what I do not have does not seem particularly hard to code up.)

I would like to loop through (or vectorize) many hundreds of values for "inputparameters"--thus creating hundreds of small temporary files (and I would delete them when done of course). If you need more details I think it would be well worth providing it, but if you can work with that, I would prefer it.

In reply to Re^2: How to vectorize a subroutine--perhapse using PDL piddles or threads by Feynman
in thread How to vectorize a subroutine--perhapse using PDL piddles or threads by Feynman

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