Re: Fortran to VB.net

Wade Ward wrote:
"Shawn" <saquisenberry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1183408554.674446.108800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you.
Had already gotten Open in VB.NET --> Fileopen(#, filename, etc..)
Close is similar --> Fileclose(#)

Rewind(kr(7)) --> Seek, #kr(7), 1 .
Forgot all about seek.

You can do anything w/ Format$() in VB shown here -- just more painful,
but it's doable...
I was afraid of that, the "more painful" part that is.

.Net switched to a more obj oriented method but still supports the
previous style for file management.
It sounds like you're getting it done. At the end I'd like to see what the Fortran was and what the VB became to compare alongside.

I suspect it will be quite similar w/ the exception of needing as pointed out to parse an input line manually if the input can't be modified to be comma-delimited or similarly made compatible w/ the VB input parsing rules (which don't include the ability to use a format string).

For procedural-only code, I've often described Fortran as BASIC w/ DO...ENDDO instead of For...Next. While there are other things like Format$() being a pita as compared to Fortran FORMAT statements, overall there's a very direct comparison in most parts of the language.

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