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   Tim Holyoake (psychotimmy@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 20:08:39 JST Tim Holyoake

   #AdventOfCode in #FORTRAN 77.

   Day 1 wasn't too bad ... all numbers, so no nasty string handling to worry about.

   https://github.com/psychotimmy/aoc2024

   #AdventOfCode2024 #RetroComputing

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     lfa (lfa@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 20:08:37 JST lfa

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     @psychotimmy An experienced hand knows all the moves 😉

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     Tim Holyoake (psychotimmy@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 20:08:38 JST Tim Holyoake

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     Fascinating seeing the number of #AdventOfCode posts saying how tricky it is to parse two columns of integers from a file in <insert trendy language here> when it only takes a read with a simple format(i6,bn,i6) statement in #Fortran.

     (Not gloating too much as I know as soon as we get onto weirdly formatted and delimited variable length text files I'm going to struggle!)

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     lfa (lfa@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 23:07:46 JST lfa

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     @psychotimmy Maybe next year I try Advent of Code myself. A chance to learn some LISP or Scheme.

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     Tim Holyoake (psychotimmy@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 23:07:47 JST Tim Holyoake

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     • lfa

     @lfa

     Today's puzzle input was annoying as although it was single space separated integers, Fortran77 expects them right justified (and they were left justified!) ... a leftover from punch card machines ;)

     So I had to write a subroutine to read the input as character strings and then convert.

     I did say that I wasn't going to gloat too quickly!!!