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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:42:49 -0500
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On 04/03/2025 12:25, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>> On 2025-03-04, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2025 06:25, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 23:02:44 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>      It's easy to kinda drift into that during development, you always
>>>>>      think of ONE more thing you need to pass. However stage two, you put
>>>>>      all that crap in a struct and pass one pointer. Each function can
>>>>>      extract what it needs from that struct and ignore the rest.
>>>>
>>>> I never made it to anywhere close to 60 parameters. We did have one
>>>> utility that took 22 command line parameters but it was never meant to be
>>>> invoked manually and came with a csh. Even then they all were stuffed into
>>>> a struct before the real function was called.
>>>>
>>>> Even worse, the parameters were field widths in a positional record. I
>>>> truly hate positional records but the damn things live on.
>>> len=sprintf(query,"insert into day set
>>> timestamp='%s',demand='%f',frequency='%f',coal='%f',nuclear='%f',ccgt='%f',ocgt='%f',french_ict='%f',
>>> irish_ict='%f', dutch_ict='%f', ew_ict= '%f',
>>> pumped='%f',hydro='%f',wind='%f',oil='%f',other='%f', north_south='%f',
>>> scotland_england='%f', solar='%f', biomass='%f', nemo='%f',ifa2='%f',
>>> nsl='%f', intelec_ict='%f',vkl_ict=%f",
>>> 		timestr,total,frequency,coal,
>>> nuclear,ccgt,ocgt,france,ireland,holland,ew,pumped,hydro,wind,oil,other,north_south,scotland_england,
>>> solar, biomass,nemo,ifa2,nsl,intelec,vkl );

Pretty nasty.  I think I'd be inclined to create a table something like,

               'timestamp=', '%s', *timestr,
               'demand=',    '%f', *total,

and build the output string in a for loop.


-- 
Dan Espen