CobolDMS

An interactive command line utility to convert Decimal Degrees to Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (and viceversa).
This is a rewrite of this project (originally written in Java) by @qAxelFT written in COBOL.

Why?

Because I'm a masochist.
I got curious and decided it was a good idea to give COBOL a try.

Requirements

To compile this project GnuCOBOL was used.
On Linux distributions you can install it by running:

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S gnucobol

# Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros
sudo apt install gnucobol

# Gentoo
sudo emerge -v dev-lang/gnucobol

For other distros, as well as Windows and Mac users, you can download GnuCOBOL here.
Other COBOL compilers may work too (perhaps).

Compiling

First, you can get the repo by running:

git clone https://github.com/ClaraCF/CobolDMS
cd CobolDMS

To compile this project you may run the following command:

cobc -O2 -x main.cbl -o CobolDMS

Feel free to change the -O flag level to your liking, but I'd recommend not disabling it as it produces a warning otherwise.

Usage

Upon running the generated executable, you'll be met with a menu with options. Use number to navigate through the different menus and submenus.

There are currently three options in the main menu:

1. Convertion from Decimal Degrees to Degrees, Minutes and Seconds: Input a numeric value corresponding to decimal degrees to convert it to DMS.
2. Convertion from Degrees, Minutes and Seconds to Decimal Degrees: Input a numeric value corresponding to DMS to convert it to decimal degrees.
3. Exit: Exit 👍

Selecting any of the conversion options will just prompt you to enter values and output a result.

• Decimal Degrees to Degrees, Minutes and Second will ask you to enter a value corresponding to Decimal Degrees in the format of XXX.XXX and output the result in the format of XXXº XXX' XXX.XX".
• Degrees, Minutes and Seconds to Decimal Degrees will ask you to enter three values:
  • Degrees in the format of an XXX integer (altough floating point is kinda supported)
  • Minutes in the format of an XX integer (altough up to 3 digits and floating points are kinda supported as well)
  • Seconds in the format of XX.XXX (altough up to 3 digits is kinda supported too)

NOTE: Conversion from DMS to Degrees is a little imprecise. May try to fix eventually.

Submenus currently have just 2 options:

1. Returning to the main menu to choose to perform another conversion
2. Exiting

Values that count as valid input are positive numbers with floating point with a limit of 3 digits before and after the point.
For example: 10, 300, 123.50, 45.678, 0.
Negative numbers and numbers with more than 3 digits before and/or after the floating point are not supported.
Try not to break the program. It definitely will.

Contributing

Do you think you know COBOL better than I do? Well, you're absolutely right. If you think you have something to add, please feel free to contribute to this atrocious creation <3.
Corrections and contributions to other things such as this README are also welcome and greatly appreciated. (Seriously c: <3).

License

No.