Re: perl to fortran thoughts

Jim Burns wrote:

[...]
But I'm just trying to see what I may not be seeing. Could it be simply a
matter of them being dependent upon the ill-designed fortran script without
any power or inclination to fix or modify it? I believe it could be. But I
also received,

Also, we have a very limited staff and resources, so we
cannot allocate much effort to research a problem that
appears to be on your end

which is primarilly what drives me to want to provide a thoughtful response.
So far from what I've been able to determine, it's fundamentally wrong to
suggest it's a problem "at my end."

The problem is not at your end. The Perl script should read out the
offered data by parsing the name/value pairs; and that procedure should
not depend on the order of those pairs (which would be at least risky
IMO).

But there's a chance Perl does the job right. It could maybe go wrong
when Perl passes the data further to the Fortran program. Difficult to
tell without looking at the code, of course.

--
Bart

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