NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

VARTABLE ADD
Verbs
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FIELDS= fieldlist
specifies the information you want to store. fieldlist is a list of names in the
format shown next:
name
( name )
( name , name … )
name must be one of the values shown in the following table; the names are
mutually exclusive:
Value Description
DATAn
or Dn
Specifies that you are supplying a data value for the nth data field in this
entry. The value of n must be from 1 through 128. You may have several
DATAn entries as long as each entry has a unique number n. VARTABLE
ALLOC can specify that there are up to 512 data entries. If you wish to add
data to a data field where n is greater than 128, you must use the D* form
described next.
DATA*
or D*
Specifies that you are supplying data for all the data fields in this entry, from
1 through the number specified when the table was allocated (the DATA=
parameter on VARTABLE ALLOC). The accompanying variable in the
VARS=& list must be in the format prefix*, and the suffixes generated to
access the variables are 1 through n.
.COUNTER or
COUNTER
Specifies that you are supplying an initial value for the counter field in this
entry.
.ADJUST or
ADJUST
Specifies that you are supplying an adjustment amount for the counter field in
this entry.
.USERCORR or
USERCORR
Specifies that you are supplying a user correlator check value. Because a
new entry cannot have a value to check against, the supplied value is ignored
(but must be numeric).
VARS= output-vars-list
specifies the NCL variables that contain the information for each entry in
fieldlist . There is a one-to-one correspondence between each entry in
output-vars-list to the same entry in fieldlist . For example, the first
entry in output-vars-list specifies the variable containing the data for the
first entry in fieldlist . See “Frequently Occurring Operands,” at the beginning
of this section, for more information.