Solved: Read Binary Data written by VB/MATLAB

mohanmuthu · ‎10-29-2015

Is it possible to read the binary data written by VisualBasic or MATLAB in fortran 12.1 directly (without using DLL)? If not, can we use the DLL created by MATLAB/VB to read it to fortran?

mecej4 · ‎10-29-2015

Fortran has ACCESS='stream' as an option to the file open statement. With this, you can process files as streams, but you have to know the structure of the file and do the management of the I/O from/to such a file.

A DLL can do anything that you program into it, and a subprogram in a DLL can certainly read a file and return the contents in the form of subprogram arguments.

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mecej4 · ‎10-29-2015

Fortran has ACCESS='stream' as an option to the file open statement. With this, you can process files as streams, but you have to know the structure of the file and do the management of the I/O from/to such a file.

A DLL can do anything that you program into it, and a subprogram in a DLL can certainly read a file and return the contents in the form of subprogram arguments.