Dear mecej4

Thanks for your comments. I will search.
Could you please guide me to a site where I can get the basics of input and output in Fortran? I had worked with fortran more than 25 years ago and this is the first time I want to RUN it using Visual Studio.

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mecej4 wrote:

Search for the output files by name using Windows Search. If the program ran without any error messages, it must have found the input file. You may have more than one copy of the input file.

Input and output files are, by default, located in the current working directory. When you use an IDE such as Visual Studio, the concept of current working directory becomes a little nebulous.

Searching the output file didn't find it.

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bmchenry wrote:

be sure to add error and endof file routings to your code for the OPEN, READ & Write statements and then write a message so you can see if the file is found and opened.
In Visual Studio access Project->Properties->Debugging
see Working Directory to set to something other than the default
Otherwise it will run in either Debug or Release Folders which are sub-directories from your Project location.
Help->Intel Visual Fortran...
will direct you to the User and Reference Manual which also points to samples which should get you up to speed!

look at the

Dear bmchenry
Thanks for your comment. I am aware of putting messages for print so that I can trace them and already did it.
You talked about working directories. How can I access its settings to change to a known place for me?

I checked Visual Studios site for help on
http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k...

but couldn't find anything related to FORTRAN samples or guidelines. Perhaps I should look for something other than key word "FORTRAN"

Also in MSDN Forum site, a search with FORTRAN didn't bring anything. The only thing is F#. Is it really different from FORTRAN?

I find the exe file in:
ConsoleApplication3\ConsoleApplication3\bin\Debug

Double clicking this exe file just pops up Command line prompt for less than a second and closes up immediately.
How can I keep it remain on the screen?

Dear bmchenry

I found the working directory path. IT is as follows:
Right click the application name in Solution explorer, go to properties, go to "debug" tab
and working directory is under Start Options heading

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bmchenry wrote:

with Visual Studio open (and Fortran installed) when you select help menu you should see
Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2013 (or which version you are using)
select that menu option and it should present you with the Help viewer OR simply open the Fortran help file
below is some screen captures on it
also you can use
Read(*,*)
i believe on a console application to read/pause the program
set up a variable to read and then write it to the console to pause and continue
integer something1, something2
read(*,*) something1
write(*,*) something1
read(*,*) something2
etc...

Dear Henry
What you mentioned in the help menu, exists but it connects to online help. An icon appears in system taskbar referring to
http://127.0.0.1:47873/help/0-1540/ms.help?product=VS&productVersion=100...

A screenshot is attached. I couldn't get the information I nee regarding READ/Write format from that help.

This is the help site screenshot

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Steve Lionel (Intel) wrote:

If you run a program from within Visual Studio, the default directory is the one containing the project file - it is not "nebulous". Typically this is not the directory containing the EXE.

With the code as shown, if the file does not exist in the default directory an empty file will be created.

Dear Steve thanks for help and support.

There are few files with different extensions like as follows in the project folder:
ConsoleApplication3.sln
ConsoleApplication3.suo
Program.for
ConsoleApplication3.fsproj
ConsoleApplication3.exe
ConsoleApplication3.pdb
ConsoleApplication3.XML

Which one is the empty file?
I suppose debuging will make the exe file, if ther is no error. Am I correct?
The execution of exe file will run the code and should read the input file. I have the input put inside the project folder. Then it should produce the output file presumably inside the project folder with the name I have opened but I can't find it.

One more question. Is it necessary to compile the code after debugging or debugging will compile the code as well? And in order to run the code is it necessary to double click the exe file inside project folder or VS will run and show the result in OUTPUT tab?

This is the screen shot.

Dear Henry
The info at http://127.0.0.1:47873/help/0-1540/ms.help?product=VS&productVersion=100...
gives good info regarding read/write.
I hope it will solve my issue.
Thanks

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Steve Lionel (Intel) wrote:

None of the files you show would be the empty file as written by the program. Perhaps the program did not run at all. Either the file would have the name given to it in the program, or it would be something like fort.7 for a file written on unit 7.

Isn't there any way/procedure to check and be sure that the program is executed or not?

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IanH wrote:

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Rasoul K. wrote:...

There are few files with different extensions like as follows in the project folder:
...
ConsoleApplication3.fsproj
...

That is the project settings file for a completely different language (F#). Given other postings - are you sure you are using a Fortran project?

The project settings file for an Intel Visual Fortran project in Visual Studio has a .vfproj extension.

Dear Ian

Thanks for your reply. You pointed exactly to the problem. I would never find out this by myself.
I opened a project and then copy/pasted the code inside. Mistakenly I have opened a F# project.
Now let me try again and post here what happens.