NESC9480 INTERP
INTERP, Lexical Analysis for Problems Oriented Language Development
NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES
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| Program name | Package id | Status | Status date |
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| INTERP | NESC9480/01 | Tested | 04-SEP-1992 |
Machines used:
| Package ID | Orig. computer | Test computer |
|---|---|---|
| NESC9480/01 | DEC VAX 8700 | DEC VAX 8810 |
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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION
INTERP is a free format data interpretation subroutine system for lexical analysis. The system is flexible, easy to use, small, and efficient and simplifies the development of a problem oriented language (POL) as well as any other translation preprocessor for an application program. INTERP is currently being used to interpret POL translators for both engineering analysis codes and utility programs. The application callable part of the INTERP subroutine system consists of the configuration routines, the interrogation routines, the logical testing functions, the utility routines, the advanced operations routines, and a string handling library. INTERP processes textual information in the form of strings, which are a primary means of data exchange between INTERP and the application program. The INTERP system can be configured to read data directly from a file opened by the application program or the application program. The INTERP system can be configured to read data directly from a file opened by the application program or the application program may read the data file directly and pass the data to the INTERP system by means of a utility routine.
INTERP is a free format data interpretation subroutine system for lexical analysis. The system is flexible, easy to use, small, and efficient and simplifies the development of a problem oriented language (POL) as well as any other translation preprocessor for an application program. INTERP is currently being used to interpret POL translators for both engineering analysis codes and utility programs. The application callable part of the INTERP subroutine system consists of the configuration routines, the interrogation routines, the logical testing functions, the utility routines, the advanced operations routines, and a string handling library. INTERP processes textual information in the form of strings, which are a primary means of data exchange between INTERP and the application program. The INTERP system can be configured to read data directly from a file opened by the application program or the application program. The INTERP system can be configured to read data directly from a file opened by the application program or the application program may read the data file directly and pass the data to the INTERP system by means of a utility routine.
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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION
INTERP is a lexical analyzer which examines a data line with no prior knowledge of what it contains and informs the application program of what was found. Each data line typically consists of a collection of special characters and tokens. A token is defined to be an identifiable unit of information. Each new data line is loaded into an internal line buffer and examined one character at a time until a complete token is read. At this time control is returned to the application program which uses the INTERP logical testing functions to identify the token.Once the identification is made, INTERP continues processing the data line until it reaches the end-of-line. INTERP is then given a new line and the process is repeated. INTERP recognizes three classes of tokens - numeric, textual, and position identifying. These are further divided into eight types: integer, real, double precision, text, separator, string, end-of-line and end-of-file. INTERP recognizes six types of special characters: delimiters, separators, the comment character, the escape character, and two types of continuation characters. The characters available to be used as one of these six types of special characters can be redefined through a
simple subroutine call.
INTERP is a lexical analyzer which examines a data line with no prior knowledge of what it contains and informs the application program of what was found. Each data line typically consists of a collection of special characters and tokens. A token is defined to be an identifiable unit of information. Each new data line is loaded into an internal line buffer and examined one character at a time until a complete token is read. At this time control is returned to the application program which uses the INTERP logical testing functions to identify the token.Once the identification is made, INTERP continues processing the data line until it reaches the end-of-line. INTERP is then given a new line and the process is repeated. INTERP recognizes three classes of tokens - numeric, textual, and position identifying. These are further divided into eight types: integer, real, double precision, text, separator, string, end-of-line and end-of-file. INTERP recognizes six types of special characters: delimiters, separators, the comment character, the escape character, and two types of continuation characters. The characters available to be used as one of these six types of special characters can be redefined through a
simple subroutine call.
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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM
Maxima of -
256 tokens per line
256 macros
132 characters per output record
32 macros per line
3 INTERP states
While these parameters have been chosen to support a fairly large grammar, they can be changed easily. INTERP assumes it is functioning in an environment using the ASCII character set. Two versions of each routine are needed, one to convert a single character and one to convert a string.
Maxima of -
256 tokens per line
256 macros
132 characters per output record
32 macros per line
3 INTERP states
While these parameters have been chosen to support a fairly large grammar, they can be changed easily. INTERP assumes it is functioning in an environment using the ASCII character set. Two versions of each routine are needed, one to convert a single character and one to convert a string.
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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM
INTERP is portable and will run with little or no modification on any computer which uses the ASCII character set. Programmers will find it quite easy to learn to use INTERP effectively and to custom configure it to their application software through simple subroutine calls.
INTERP is portable and will run with little or no modification on any computer which uses the ASCII character set. Programmers will find it quite easy to learn to use INTERP effectively and to custom configure it to their application software through simple subroutine calls.
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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS
COMPRO, an enhanced general purpose parser, uses INTERP as its lexical analyzer. COMPRO should be used (instead of INTERP) to process a program's input if the input is command line structured (i.e., if it consists of command lines containing command names, keywords, and data).
COMPRO, an enhanced general purpose parser, uses INTERP as its lexical analyzer. COMPRO should be used (instead of INTERP) to process a program's input if the input is command line structured (i.e., if it consists of command lines containing command names, keywords, and data).
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10. REFERENCES
- INTERP, NESC No. 9480,
INTERP Tape Description,
National Energy Software Center Note 89-51, May 24, 1989.
- K.J. Perano,
COMPRO - A Subroutine System for Syntactical Analysis,
SAND89-8441, in publication.
- INTERP, NESC No. 9480,
INTERP Tape Description,
National Energy Software Center Note 89-51, May 24, 1989.
- K.J. Perano,
COMPRO - A Subroutine System for Syntactical Analysis,
SAND89-8441, in publication.
NESC9480/01, included references:
- K.J. Perano and V.N. Kaliakin:INTERP - A Fortran Callable Free Format Data Interpretation
Subroutine System
SAND87-8244 UC-13 (March 1989).
- V.N. Kaliakin and K.J. Perano:
INTERP - A Fortran Callable Data Interpretation Subroutine System
Reprint from Adv. Eng. Software Vol. 10, No. 3, PP. 136-142 (1988)
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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS
The
only FORTRAN 77 extension used by INTERP is the dollar sign editing - i.e., the use of the dollar sign as the Fortran carriage control character to suppress carriage returns on lines sent to the terminal. This feature allows the cursor to remain on a line following a prompt. It is used only in the STRPUT routine.
The
only FORTRAN 77 extension used by INTERP is the dollar sign editing - i.e., the use of the dollar sign as the Fortran carriage control character to suppress carriage returns on lines sent to the terminal. This feature allows the cursor to remain on a line following a prompt. It is used only in the STRPUT routine.
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NESC9480/01
| File name | File description | Records |
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| NESC9480_01.001 | Information file | 53 |
| NESC9480_01.002 | INTERP.FOR | 4204 |
| NESC9480_01.003 | CINTERP.INC | 7 |
| NESC9480_01.004 | CSETUP.INC | 44 |
| NESC9480_01.005 | NUMBER.INC | 16 |
| NESC9480_01.006 | AREA.FOR | 82 |
| NESC9480_01.007 | AREA.DAT | 12 |
| NESC9480_01.008 | INTERPBLD.COM | 3 |
| NESC9480_01.009 | AREABLD.COM | 3 |
| NESC9480_01.010 | INTERP.FTN | 7122 |
| NESC9480_01.011 | AREA.PRT | 1 |
Keywords: FORTRAN, data analysis, interpreters, programming languages, translators.