Hello... I'm not sure if this allowed here, but I need help with something here. I have a program in Fortran 77, and I have to "translate" it to Matlab. I found a couple of translators... One that translates from F77 to F90, and then one that translated F90 to Matlab.

I "did" the translation, of course, having a lot of problems later. First, I had problems "translating" the GO TO sentences, but I think I managed to get them well. Then I had problems with some declaration and inicialization of variables, but that was fixed as well.

The program in Matlab starts running pretty well, but there's some point of the code that starts to show error messages with divisions by zero, caused by some variable that doesn't change its value from zero during the execution. Maybe I messed up this code by sneaking my hands into it?... Can someone help me with a F90 compiler, so I can see if that was the problem? Because if the error is from F77's code, it can't be possible for it to work with divisions by zero...

Please, I need big help... I have to finish this for monday...

How big is your program? I was given the horrible task of converting some FORTRAN 90 code to VB and just did the whole thing manually - it was only about 1500 lines. It's not too hard to do, and I didn't even know FORTRAN when I started (it's pretty easy to figure out what's going on). At first I had tried screwing around with converters but based on that experience I would say they are waaayyy more trouble than they are worth

I agree,

With Fortran being almost completely procedural, you should have no problem porting the individual functions to Matlab functions. Some of the Fortran stuff may not have obvious conversions, for instance you can overlay different data types on the same space of memory using equivalence... kinda like a Union.. its strange if you grew up with OO programming.

If you have specific problems with a piece of code post it here and we will try to help. Sorry your working on time constraints.. Can't help you there.

Aet

This post has been edited by Aeternalis: 24 Sep, 2009 - 06:46 AM