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Can ifort handle unformatted files that are both big_endian and little_endian

crtierney42
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‎06-06-2008 11:55 AM
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I have received some data files that have been difficult to read. It turns out that the data in the file are little endian, but the Fortran record indicators are big_endian. I can't go back to the source and figure out what they were doing. I am pretty sure the files were generated on an IBM Power system under AIX (but I am not positive).

Is there a way to tell the compiler to read the record indicators as one endian type, but the data as another?

Thanks,
Craig

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Steven_L_Intel1
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‎06-06-2008 05:50 PM
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No, sorry. I'd be very curious to know the details of how such a file was constructed - I haven't run into such a combination before.

The best I can suggest is to write some routines to do the byte swapping after you read the data.
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crtierney42
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‎06-10-2008 11:14 AM
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It came from an IBM Power system. I think that the data were generated by a C routine that mimicked creation of an unformatted fortran file. I found someone who wrote a code to do the conversion for this data.


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