[Info-vax] DCL to PHP converter anyone ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/2/2012 2:47 AM, DTL wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I remember having posted this question a few years ago but didn't succeed to find any answer anywhere today.
>
> Does someone know of a DCL to PHP converter, please? (any platform)

For the general case: I don't think it can be done.

I find it very difficult to see what:

$ 'p1' 'p2' 'p3'

should be compiled to.

(using the system call will work but does not provide any value)

For a simple but very relevant subset it may be possible.

But it will require some coding to implement.

> [this is for Hoff]
> Goal is to migrate a DCL procedure containing the following lexicals:
>
> f$cvtime
> f$edit
> f$element
> f$extract
> f$locate
> f$length
> f$search
> f$time

They should not cause a problem.

> and the following statements and verbs:
>
> call
> gosub
> return
> goto
> open
> read
> write
> close
> delete
> sort
> convert/fdl
> append
> type

sort and convert/fdl will be tricky - the rest should not
be a problem.

Arne