This is not for FORTRAN class. I need to do thousands of MCNP runs on a Linux computer. I need to write a program that can:

- open an ASCII text file and put its contents into a character string (input file template)
- find and replace certain parts of the above string (to generate the input file)
- shell the MCNP command and wait for MCNP to finish before continuing execution
- copy the output file to a specified location
- open the output file and retrieve the appropriate data (needed output can be located by a specific phrase in the output file)
- delete the "runtpe" file that MCNP generates because I don't need it and they're 3 megs each.

I wrote an application for Windows that does this, but I need more CPU power or my runs won't be done in time.



This doesn't HAVE to be done in FORTRAN, but that's all I have experience with.

[Edited on March 1, 2006 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ]

3/1/2006 4:19:19 PM

Perl would be perfect for something like this...

3/1/2006 4:25:28 PM

I don't know any Perl. Would this be a hard Perl script?

3/1/2006 4:30:40 PM

Not really. The hardest part would be learning the syntax.

http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/

I can also see writing this in C (again, the hardest part would be learning the syntax) if you needed more speed.

3/1/2006 4:33:42 PM

holy crap that's not so hard at all

3/1/2006 8:20:47 PM

I was in Tucker lab one night. I went there to use Espresso. It's basically typing in a shitload of binary numbers for minimization.

Anyways, this dude comes up to me, looking at my string of 1's and 0's, and asks "is that fortran?"

I shake my head. He asks "Oh, is it java?" No...

I told him that i was in CSC 316 (~java 3) and I expected the programming to be rather difficult. He told me that he was in Fortran and here comes the greatest part "Fortran is really hard. It's so much more tedious than HTML."








[Edited on March 1, 2006 at 8:53 PM. Reason : gawd, I'm so used to saying "all nighter"]

3/1/2006 8:51:37 PM

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"holy crap that's not so hard at all"

Get it figured out?

3/2/2006 11:27:32 AM

ive got the basic syntax. i've been working on another project i need to do as well.

3/2/2006 2:21:09 PM