Which programming language is this piece of code written in?

kkxlnc · New User Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 44 Location: Boston

hi Friends,
I am Keerti Kumar More. My question is: I found this piece of code being used in an application but we are unable to identify the language in which this code has been written. Can anybody can make out which programming language it is and what function does this piece of code perform?

PROGRAM E1365BD J1300010
CHARACTER A*14 J1300020
OPEN (UNIT=1, J1300030
* ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL', J1300040
* ACTION='READ', J1300050
* STATUS='OLD', J1300060
* FORM='FORMATTED') J1300070
OPEN (UNIT=2, J1300080
* ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL', J1300090
* ACTION='WRITE', J1300100
* STATUS='NEW', J1300110
* FORM='FORMATTED') J1300120
10 READ(1,11,END=999)A J1300130
11 FORMAT(A14) J1300140
WRITE(2,12)A(1:13) J1300150
12 FORMAT(A13) J1300160
GO TO 10 J1300170
999 STOP J1300180
END J1300190

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Keerti Kumar More.

MGIndaco · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:55 pm

This is Fortran(I think Fortran 77 because for what I read it's fixed) but I don't know what this program really do.
I can't help you more.
Try to visit this site to learn more about Fortran 77:
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~manuals/programming/sun/fortran/f77rm/

grepusr3 · New User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 29

Keerti Kumar,

Yes, the language is Fortran.

It reads input file sequentially, and for each record - it reads the first 14 bytes (as characters). It writes them, the leftmost thirteen bytes to an outputfile.

Hope it helps!

-Pelad