NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

VARTABLE UPDATE
Verbs
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FIELDS= fieldlist
specifies the information you want to store. The 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 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 .