OpenEuphoria

Re: Sequences

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Nov 08, 1998
• 984 views

Jim Roberts wrote:
>
> In EUPHORIA I read a file that was written in FORTRAN and it has the
> following format:
>
>   4I4
>
> A record might look like this where "b" is considered to be a blank.
>
>   bbb0bbb0bbb0bbb0
>
>      or
>
>    bb23b112bb34bb23
>
>     or
>
>   b103bb58bbb6bb23
>
> I can go thru each record checking for blanks and probably convert the
> numeric values but I have not found an easy way.  When I look at each
> record in a sequence statement all four characters are in a group. There
> has got to be a simple way to convert each 4 character field to an
> integer.  It is my understanding that a dimension statement does not
> exist in EUPHORIA.  Is this true?  The reason I ask is that as I unpack
> each 4 characrter numbers in each record I would like to place it in a
> buffer where I can use it as an integer for later calculations.
>
> I guess I can place them back in a sequence to do all of my calculations.
>
> If someone will help me with this simple problem I would be very
> appreciative as I am still trying to convert a simple QB program to a
> EUPHORIA program!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Roberts

off the top of my head, i'd say you needed an algorithm
that appears akin to:


numberlist = {}
   while not EOF do
        temp = {}
        for i= 1 to 4 do
           temp = temp & getc(FN)
        end for
        temp = value(temp)
        temp = temp[2] --check of course if all went well
        numberlist = numberlist & temp
   end while
return numberlist

and numberlist will have a list of valid integers
at each element location within it...
now, right off, my syntax and choice of getc
as opposed to other get?() functions could be
wrong here.... but i think you get the idear :)
not to mention the fact that the above code won't
even work ;)
hope this helps--Hawke'