in reply to Data Transfer to Fortran

Why not have the perl script invoke the fortran code supplying the name of the file, once it has created it?

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Re^2: Data Transfer to Fortran
by cheech (Beadle) on Nov 26, 2009 at 19:43 UTC
    That would be great, how do I do that?
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      Supply the path/name of the file on the command line to the fortran program? 

      my $path = '...';
open OUT, '>', $path or die $!;
## write data to file
close OUT;

system qq[ fortranProg $path ];
...

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      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        N.B. Most FORTRAN's (77 onwards) support the getarg and iarg intrinsic functions for reading command line arguments.
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