Executing FORTRAN programs within PERL

[nittmann]

Hi,

I decided to learn PERL recently and the first thing I would like to do is to execute a couple of FORTRAN programs in PERL, unfortunately the PERL book I bought does not provide a quick insight into how to do this.

What I want to do!

execute prog_1 ...which creates a file fort.1 which I want
to use in prog_2 and which I call as argument with Prog_2

hence I wrote

$command1="prog_1";
$command2="prog_2 fort.1";
system($command1);
system($command2);

However the result is that prog_2 does not recognize fort.1

 

[CaKiwi]

Does it work ok if you run it from the command line? If so, maybe you should post your question in the perl forum. CaKiwi

 

[nittmann]

Thank you for you suggestion. In fact I continued working
on this issue yesterday and I resolved it by trying various things including what you suggested.

My PERL statements were actually correct - however I made
a mistake in the output file name - hence PERL did not recognize the file I wanted it to recognize.