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Simple Data Access Example

The following program reads an IAM data file and copies to a new file all the records containing deblended CHILD objects which have good data quality.

Note that this example assumes RECL is in bytes. This assumption is dependent upon FORTRAN compiler options.

      INTEGER BUFFER(32)
      INTEGER INREC, OUTREC
      INTEGER STATUS

      OPEN ( UNIT=1, FILE='iamfile', STATUS='OLD',
     :  ACCESS='DIRECT', FORM='UNFORMATTED', RECL=128 )
      OPEN ( UNIT=2, FILE='newfile', STATUS='NEW',
     :  ACCESS='DIRECT', FORM='UNFORMATTED', RECL=128 )

      STATUS = 0
      INREC = 0
      OUTREC = 0

      DO WHILE ( STATUS .EQ. 0 )
         INREC = INREC + 1
         READ ( UNIT=1, REC=INREC, IOSTAT=STATUS ) BUFFER
         IF ( STATUS .EQ. 0 ) THEN
            IF ( ( BUFFER(29) .GT. 0 ) .AND. ( BUFFER(30) .GE. 0 ) ) THEN
               OUTREC = OUTREC + 1
               WRITE ( UNIT=2, REC=OUTREC ) BUFFER
            ENDIF
         ENDIF
      ENDDO

      END



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