dollar sign separator- what does it mean

• Mar 5, 2019

• #2

klaus.

Structural

Sep 1, 2016

495

DE

Show me a Picture of that code ....

 

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• Mar 5, 2019

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• #3

dixiematic

Chemical

Jun 13, 2007

4

SI

It is as follows

........
16 FC=FB $ FB=F
DA=DB $ DB=D
GOTO 21
........
or on another place:
........
5 FC=FB $ FB=FA $ FA=F
DC=DB $ DB=DA $ DA=D
.......
The book where I am taking the code from is dated 1972 so it is written probably in an earlier version of FORTRAN. I noticed, that there might be two versions of FORTRAN, once the author uses in an IF clause ...IF(Y(I).EQ.1) GOTO 4 and somewhere else ..IF(Y(I)) 4,5,6, but it is not a problem. It is the dollar sign that I am not sure about. On internet I found an explanation that a $ sign prevents carriage return by printing but there is no print here in my case.
regards
Dixiematic

 

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• Mar 5, 2019

• #4

klaus.

Structural

Sep 1, 2016

495

DE

I'm not sure .... but looks like a separater

instead of :
16 FC=FB $ FB=F

you can write
16 FC=FB
FB=F


It is probably a compiler dependent oparator .... and not real fortran code
In the old days they used paper cards for programms ( dont know the correct englisch name)

 

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• Mar 5, 2019

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dixiematic

Chemical

Jun 13, 2007

4

SI

Thank you. I expected something like that, it seems most logical. I wrote each statement in a separate line. It is a rather long code so I have not finished yet the translation to test if it is correct.
Regards
dixiematic

 

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• Mar 15, 2019

• #6

xwb

Computer

Apr 29, 2005

535

GB

Looks like a manually implemented stack.

 

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