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in thread Data Transfer to Fortran

That would be great, how do I do that?

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Re^3: Data Transfer to Fortran
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 26, 2009 at 19:47 UTC

    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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      N.B. Most FORTRAN's (77 onwards) support the getarg and iarg intrinsic functions for reading command line arguments.
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