NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual
VARTABLE PUT
Verbs
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FIELDS=
fieldlist
specifies the information you want to store.
fieldlist
is a list of names in the
format:
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. Mutually exclusive with ADJUST, COUNTER=, or ADJUST=.
.ADJUST or
ADJUST
Specifies that you are supplying an adjustment amount for the counter field in
this entry. Mutually exclusive with COUNTER, COUNTER=, or ADJUST=.
.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 from each entry in
output-vars-list
to the same entry in
fieldlist
. The first entry in
output-vars-list
specifies the variable containing the data for the first entry
in
fieldlist
.