Looking for help converting Fortran to C#

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I have been tasked with converting several Fortran files over to C#. I really do not have a choice and in this situation cannot use a Dot net driver to read Fortran. I am an amateur when it comes to C# and used Fortran in 1983 as my one and only time.

I have a couple of clauses which I can't seem to figure out how to relate in C#, if someone could get me pointed in the right direction please.

What I have tried:

I have a lot of instances in Fortran where an array is Allocated using an ALLOCATABLE command. I do not know how to do similar in C#, later on, in code, I need to reference this allocation as a check as well.

I have a Type declaration:

TYPE Cell
      DOUBLE PRECISION, POINTER :: column(:)
END TYPE Cell

How do I convert this Declaration to C#?

I have assignments using the above declaration:

TYPE(Cell), POINTER           :: PMAT(:)
	TYPE(Cell), POINTER           :: PMATD(:) 
	TYPE(Cell), POINTER           :: NMATD(:)

How do I declare these variables in C#?

Posted 2-Jul-18 10:00am

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Updated 3-Jul-18 3:56am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-07-02T18:37:00

Don't translate them: they are very different languages and you will not end up with good quality code in C#. What you are trying to do is translate Shakespeare's plays to Korean using Google translate to look up each word:

To be or not to be, that is the question

에 있다 또는 아니 에 있다 그 ~이다. 그만큼 문제

Which translates back as:

It is in or is not in. That problem

Whereas translating the whole phrase gives this:

존재하거나 존재하지 않기 위해서, 그것은 질문입니다.

Which at least comes back with something a little more poetic!

To exist or not exist, it is a question.

But I'm sure that a person fluent in both languages could produce a much better result. :laugh:

Your best solution is to rewrite the code using the original application as a specification, not translate the existing code, particularly if you are unfamiliar with the source language!

User 7923865 · Answer 2 · 2018-07-03T03:56:00

Solution 2

it is apparent that there was no point in asking this question here.

Posted 3-Jul-18 3:56am

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Richard Deeming 3-Jul-18 11:17am

It is even more apparent that there was no need to post this passive-agressive comment as a "solution".

If you don't want advice from other programmers, then don't bother asking for it.