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functions in std.i -
__xdr
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primitive data types for various machines:
little-endians
__i86 Intel x86 Linux
__ibmpc IBM PC (2 byte int)
__alpha Compaq alpha
__dec DEC workstation (MIPS), Intel x86 Windows
__vax DEC VAX (H-double)
__vaxg DEC VAX (G-double)
big-endians
__xdr External Data Representation
__sun Sun, HP, SGI, IBM-RS6000, MIPS 32 bit
__sun3 Sun-2 or Sun-3 (old)
__sgi64 SGI, Sun, HP, IBM-RS6000 64 bit
__mac MacIntosh 68000 (power Mac, Gx are __sun)
__macl MacIntosh 68000 (12 byte double)
__cray Cray XMP, YMP
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set_primitives
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_init_clog
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_init_clog, file
initializes a Clog binary file. Used after creating a new file --
must be called AFTER the primitive data formats have been set.
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_init_pdb
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_init_pdb, file, at_pdb_close
_set_pdb, file, at_pdb_close
initializes a PDB binary file. Used after creating a new file --
must be called AFTER the primitive data formats have been set.
The _set_pdb call only sets the CloseHook, on the assumption that
the file header has already been written (as in recover_file).
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SEE ALSO:
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createb,
recover_file,
at_pdb_close
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_jr
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_jt, file, time
_jc, file, ncyc
_jr, file
are raw versions of jt and jc provided to simplify redefining
the default jt and jc functions to add additional features.
For example, you could redefine jt to jump to a time, then
plot something. The new jt can pass its arguments along to
_jt, then call the appropriate plotting functions.
There is a raw version of jr as well.
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_lst
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list= _lst(item1, item2, item3, ...)
list= _cat(item_or_list1, item_or_list2, item_or_list3, ...)
list= _cpy(list)
list= _cpy(list, i)
length= _len(list)
item= _car(list)
item_i= _car(list, i)
_car, list, i, new_item_i
list= _cdr(list)
list= _cdr(list, i)
_cdr, list, i, new_list_i
implement rudimentary Lisp-like list handling in Yorick.
However, in Yorick, a list must have a simple tree structure
- no loops or rings are allowed (loops break Yorick's memory
manager - beware). You need to be careful not to do this as
the error will not be detected.
Lists are required in Yorick whenever you need to hold an
indeterminate amount of non-array data, such as file handles,
bookmarks, functions, index ranges, etc. Note that Yorick
pointers cannot point to these objects. For array data, you have
a choice between a list and a struct or an array of pointers.
Note that a list cannot be written into a file with the save
function, since it may contain unsaveable items.
The _lst (list), _cat (catenate), and _cpy (copy) functions
are the principal means for creating and maintaining lists.
_lst makes a list out of its arguments, so that each argument
becomes one item of the new list. Unlike Yorick array data
types, a statement like x=list does not make a copy of the
list, it merely makes an additional reference to the list.
You must explicitly use the _cpy function to copy a list. Note
that _cpy only copies the outermost list itself, not the items
in the list (even if those items are lists). With the second
argument i, _cpy copies only the first i items in the list.
The _cat function concatentates several lists together,
"promoting" any arguments which are not lists. This operation
changes the values of list arguments to _cat, except for the
final argument, since after _cat(list, item), the variable list
will point to the new longer list returned by _cat.
Nil, or [], functions as an empty list. This leads to ambiguity
in the argument list for _cat, since _cat "promotes" non-list
arguments to lists; _cat treats [] as an empty list, not as a
non-list item. Also, _lst() or _lst([]) returns a single item list,
not [] itself.
The _len function returns the number of items in a list, or 0
for [].
The _car and _cdr functions (the names are taken from Lisp,
where they originally stood for something like "address register"
and "data register" of some long forgotten machine) provide
access to the items stored in a list. _car(list,i) returns the
i-th item of the list, and i defaults to 1, so _car(list) is the
first item. Also, _car,list,i,new_item_i sets the i-th item
of the list. Finally, _cdr(list,i) returns a list of all the
items beyond the i-th, where i again defaults to 1. The form
_cdr,list,i,new_list_i can be used to reset all list items
beyond the i-th to new values. In the _cdr function, i=0 is
allowed. When used to set values, both _car and _cdr can also
be called as functions, in which case they return the item or
list which has been replaced. The _cdr(list) function returns
nil if and only if LIST contains only a single item; this is
the usual means of halting a loop over items in a list.
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array,
grow,
_prt,
_map,
_rev,
_nxt
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_map
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_map(f, list)
return a list of the results of applying function F to each
element of the input LIST in turn, as if by
_lst(f(_car(list,1)),f(_car(list,2)),...)
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_lst
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_not_cdf
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_not_cdf(file)
is like _not_pdb, but for netCDF files.
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_not_pdb
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_not_pdb(file, familyOK)
returns 1 if FILE is not a PDB file, otherwise returns 0 after
setting the structure and data tables, and cataloguing any
history records. Used to open an existing file. Also detects
a file with an appended Clog description.
Before calling _not_pdb, set the variable yPDBopen to the value
of at_pdb_open you want to be in force. (For historical reasons
-- in order to allow for the open102 keyword to openb -- _not_pdb
looks at the value of the variable yPDBopen, rather than at_pdb_open
directly.)
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_nxt
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item= _nxt(list)
return first item in LIST, and set LIST to list of remaining
items. If you are iterating through a list, this is the way
to do it, since a loop on _car(list,i) with i varying from 1
to _len(list) scales quadratically with the length of the list,
while a loop on _nxt(list) scales linearly.
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_car,
_lst
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_prt
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_prt, list
print every item in a list, recursing if some item is itself a list.
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_lst
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_read
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_write, file, address, expression
_read, file, address, variable
or nbytes= _read(file, address, variable);
are low level read and write functions which do not "see" the
symbol table for the binary FILE. The ADDRESS is the byte address
at which to begin the write or read operation. The type and number
of objects of the EXPRESSION or VARIABLE determines how much data
to read, and what format conversion operations to apply. In the
case of type char, no conversion operations are ever applied, and
_read will return the actual number of bytes read, which may be
fewer than the number implied by VARIABLE in this one case.
(In all other cases, _read returns numberof(VARIABLE).)
If the FILE has records, the ADDRESS is understood to be in the
file family member in which the current record resides.
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openb,
createb,
updateb,
save,
restore,
sizeof
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_rev
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_rev(list)
returns the input list in reverse order
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_lst
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abs
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abs(x)
or abs(x, y, z, ...)
returns the absolute value of its argument.
In the multi-argument form, returns sqrt(x^2+y^2+z^2+...).
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sign,
sqrt
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add_member
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add_member, file, struct_name, offset, name, type, dimlist
adds a member to a data type in the file FILE. The data type name
(struct name) is STRUCT_NAME, which will be created if it does
not already exist. The new member will be at OFFSET (in bytes)
from the beginning of an instance of this structure, and will
have the specified NAME, TYPE, and DIMLIST. Use OFFSET -1 to
have add_member compute the next available offset in the structure.
The TYPE can be either a structure definition, or a string naming
a previously defined data type in FILE. The optional DIMLIST is
as for the "array" function.
The STRUCT_NAME built from a series of add_member calls cannot be
used until it is installed with install_struct.
This function should be used very sparingly, mostly in code which
is building the structure of a foreign-format binary file.
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add_variable,
install_struct,
struct_align
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add_next_file
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failure= add_next_file(file, filename, create_flag)
adds the next file to the FILE, which must contain history records.
If FILENAME is non-nil, the new file will be called that, otherwise
the next sequential filename is used. If CREATE_FLAG is present
and non-zero, the new file will be created if it does not already
exist. If omitted or nil, CREATE_FLAG defaults to 1 if the file has
write permission and 0 if it does not.
Returns 0 on success.
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openb,
updateb,
createb,
add_record
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add_record
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add_record, file, time, ncyc
or add_record, file, time, ncyc, address
or add_record, file
adds a new record to FILE corresponding to the specified TIME and
NCYC (respectively a double and a long). Either or both TIME
and NCYC may be nil or omitted, but the existence of TIME and
NCYC must be the same for every record added to one FILE.
If present, ADDRESS specifies the disk address of the new record,
which is assumed to be in the current file. Without ADDRESS, or
if ADDRESS<0, the next available address is used; this may create
a new file in the family (see the set_filesize function).
The add_record function leaves the new record current
for subsequent save commands to actually write the data.
The TIME, NCYC, and ADDRESS arguments may be equal length vectors
to add several records at once; in this case, the first of the
newly added records is the current one. If all three of TIME,
NCYC, and ADDRESS are nil or omitted, no new records are added,
but the file becomes a record file if it was not already, and in
any case, no record will be the current record after such an
add_record call.
After the first add_record call (even if no records were added),
subsequent add_variable commands will create record variables.
After the first record has been added, subsequent save commands
will create any new variables as record variables.
After a second record has been added using add_record, neither
save commands nor add_variable commands may be used to introduce
any new record variables.
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save,
createb,
updateb,
openb,
set_filesize,
set_blocksize,
add_variable
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add_variable
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add_variable, file, address, name, type, dimlist
adds a variable NAME to FILE at the specified ADDRESS, with the
specified TYPE and dimensions given by DIMLIST. The DIMLIST may
be zero or more arguments, as for the "array" function. If the
ADDRESS is <0, the next available address is used. Note that,
unlike the save command, add_variable does not actually write any
data -- it merely changes Yorick's description of the contents of
FILE.
After the first add_record call, add_variable adds a variable to
the record instead of a non-record variable. See add_record.
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save,
openb,
createb,
updateb,
add_record,
add_member,
install_struct,
data_align
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allof
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allof(x)
anyof(x)
nallof(x)
noneof(x)
Respectively:
returns 1 if every element of the array x is non-zero, else 0.
returns 1 if at least one element of the array x is non-zero, else 0.
returns 1 if at least one element of the array x is zero, else 0.
returns 1 if every element of the array x is zero, else 0.
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allof,
anyof,
noneof,
nallof,
where,
where2
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alpha_primitives
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alpha_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to DEC alpha workstations.
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am_subroutine
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am_subroutine()
returns 1 if the current Yorick function was invoked as a subroutine,
else 0. If am_subroutine() returns true, the result of the current
function will not be used, and need not be computed (the function
has been called for its side effects only).
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area
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area(y, x)
returns the zonal areas of the 2-D mesh (X, Y). If Y and X are
imax-by-jmax, the result is (imax-1)-by-(jmax-1). The area is
positive when, say, X increases with i and Y increases with j.
For example, area([[0,0],[1,1]],[[0,1],[0,1]]) is +1.
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volume
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array
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array(value, dimension_list)
or array(type, dimension_list)
returns an object of the same type as VALUE, consisting of copies
of VALUE, with the given DIMENSION_LIST appended to the dimensions
of VALUE. Hence, array(1.5, 3, 1) is the same as [[1.5, 1.5, 1.5]].
In the second form, the VALUE is taken as scalar zero of the TYPE.
Hence, array(short, 2, 3) is the same as [[0s,0s],[0s,0s],[0s,0s]].
A DIMENSION_LIST is a list of arguments, each of which may be
any of the following:
(1) A positive scalar integer expression,
(2) An index range with no step field (e.g.- 1:10), or
(3) A vector of integers [number of dims, length1, length2, ...]
(that is, the format returned by the dimsof function).
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reshape,
is_array,
dimsof,
numberof,
grow,
span,
use_origins,
_lst
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asinh
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asinh(x)
acosh(x)
atanh(x)
returns the inverse hyperbolic sine, cosine, or tangent of
its argument. The range of real acosh is >=0.0.
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sinh,
cosh,
tanh,
sech,
csch
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at_pdb_open
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at_pdb_open
at_pdb_close
bits for optional behavior when a PDB file is opened or closed:
at_pdb_open:
000 Major-Order: value specified in file is correct
001 Major-Order:102 always
002 Major-Order: opposite from what file says
003 Major-Order:101 always
004 Strip Basis @... suffices from variable names (when possible)
Danger! If you do this and open a file for update, the variable
names will be stripped when you close the file!
010 Use Basis @history convention on input
The 001 and 002 bits may be overridden by the open102 keyword.
The default value of at_pdb_open is 010.
at_pdb_close (the value at the time the file is opened or created
is remembered):
001 Write Major-Order 102 PDB file
002 Write PDB style history data
The following are no-ops unless bit 002 is set:
004 Use Basis @history convention on output
010 Do NOT pack all history record variables into
a single structure instance.
The 001 bit may be overridden by the close102 keyword or if
close102_default is non-zero.
The default value of at_pdb_close is 007.
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SEE ALSO:
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close102_default
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atan
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atan(x)
or atan(y, x)
returns the inverse tangent of its argument, range [-pi/2, pi/2].
In the two argument form, returns the angle from (1, 0) to (x, y),
in the range (-pi, pi], with atan(1, 0)==pi/2. (If x>=0, this is
the same as atan(y/x).)
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sin,
cos,
tan,
asin,
acos,
atan
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autoload
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autoload, ifile, var1, var2, ...
or autoload, ifile
causes IFILE to be included when any of the variables VAR1, VAR2, ...
is referenced as a function or subroutine. Multiple autoload
calls may refer to a single IFILE; the effect is cumulative. Note
that any reference to a single one of the VARi causes all of them
to be replaced (when IFILE is included).
The semantics of this process are complicated, but should work
as expected in most cases: After the call to autoload, the VARi
may not be redefined (e.g.- VARi=something or func VARi) without
generating a warning message, and causing all the VARi for the
same IFILE to become undefined. The semantic subtlety arises
from the yorick variable scoping rules; if any of the VARi has local
scope for any function in the calling chain when the inclusion of
IFILE is actually triggered, only those local values will be
replaced. (The autoload function is no different than the require
or include functions in this regard.)
The second form, with no VARi, cancels the autoload, without giving
any warning; all the VARi become undefined.
Before IFILE is included, the VARi behave like [] (nil) variables
as far as their response to the is_void function, and the ! and ?
operators. (You can use is_func to discover whether a variable is
an autoload.) Only their actual use in a function or subroutine call
will trigger the autoload. While the IFILE may define the VARi
as any type of object, the autoload feature only works as intended
if the VARi are defined as interpreted or built-in functions. The
only way it makes sense for a VARi to be a built-in function, is
if the IFILE executes a plug_in command to dynamically load an
associated compiled library.
If IFILE (or a file with the same name) has already been included,
autoload is a silent no-op. This is exactly analogous to the
behavior of the require function; it does not harm to call either
require or autoload if the IFILE has already been included. Note
that you may want to place a require at the beginning of a file
you expect to be autoloaded, in preference to providing separate
autoloads for the second file.
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include,
require,
plug_in,
is_func
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avg
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avg(x)
returns the scalar average of all elements of its array argument.
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sum,
min,
max
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batch
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batch, 1
batch, 0
batch()
turns on, turns off, or tests for batch mode, respectively.
If yorick is started with the command line:
yorick -batch batch_include.i ...
then batch mode is turned on, the usual custom.i startup file is
skipped, and the file batch_include.i is parsed and executed. The
-batch and batch_include.i command line arguments are removed from
the list returned by get_argv(). These must be the first two
arguments on the command line.
In batch mode, any error will terminate Yorick (as by the quit
function) rather than entering debug mode. Also, any attempt to
read from the keyboard is an error.
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process_argv,
get_argv,
set_idler
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bookmark
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backup, f
or bmark= bookmark(f)
...
backup, f, bmark
back up the text stream F, so that the next call to the read
function returns the same line as the previous call to read
(note that you can only back up one line). If the optional
second argument BMARK is supplied, restores the state of the
file F to its state at the time the bookmark function was
called.
After a matching failure in read, use the single argument form
of backup to reread the line containing the matching failure.
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read,
rdline,
open,
close
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call
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call, subroutine(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5
arg6, arg7, arg8);
allows a SUBROUTINE to be called with a very long argument list
as an alternative to:
subroutine, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5,
arg6, arg7, arg8;
Note that the statement
subroutine(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5,
arg6, arg7, arg8);
will print the return value of subroutine, even if it is nil.
If invoked as a function, call simply returns its argument.
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catch
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catch(category)
Catch errors of the specified category. Category may be -1 to
catch all errors, or a bitwise or of the following bits:
0x01 math errors (SIGFPE, math library)
0x02 I/O errors
0x04 keyboard interrupts (e.g.- control C interrupt)
0x08 other compiled errors (YError)
0x10 interpreted errors (error)
Use catch by placing it in a function before the section of code
in which you are trying to catch errors. When catch is called,
it always returns 0, but it records the virtual machine program
counter where it was called, and longjumps there if an error is
detected. The most recent matching call to catch will catch the
error. Returning from the function in which catch was called
pops that call off the list of catches the interpreter checks.
To use catch, place the call near the top of a function:
if (catch(category)) {
......
}
......
If an error with the specified category occurs in the "protected"
code, the program jumps back to the point of the catch and acts
as if the catch function had returned 1 (remember that when catch
is actually called it always returns 0).
In order to lessen the chances of infinite loops, the catch is
popped off the active list if it is actually used, so that a
second error will *not* be caught. Often, this is only desirable
for the error handling code itself -- if you want to re-execute
the "protected" code, do this, and take care of the possibility
of infinite loops in your interpreted code:
while (catch(category)) {
......
}
......
After an error has been caught, the associated error message
(what would have been printed had it not been caught) is left
in the variable catch_message.
***WARNING***
If the code protected by the catch contains include or require
calls, or function references which force autoloads, and the
fault occurs while yorick is interpreting an included file,
catch will itself fault, and the error code will not execute.
If a fault occurs after an include has pushed a file onto
the include stack for delayed parsing and you catch that fault,
the include stack will not unwind to its condition at the time
catch was called. That is, catch is incapable of protecting
you completely during operations involving nested levels of
include files.
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error
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cd
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cd, directory_name
or cd(directory_name)
change current working directory to DIRECTORY_NAME, returning
the expanded path name (i.e.- with leading environment variables,
., .., or ~ replaced by the actual pathname). If called as a
function, returns nil to indicate failure, otherwise failure
causes a Yorick error.
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lsdir,
mkdir,
rmdir,
get_cwd,
get_home,
get_env,
get_argv
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ceil
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ceil(x)
returns the smallest integer not less than x (no-op on integers).
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floor
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close
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close, f
closes the I/O stream F (returned earlier by the open function).
If F is a simple variable reference (as opposed to an expression),
the close function will set F to nil. If F is the only reference
to the I/O stream, then "close, f" is equivalent to "f= []".
Otherwise, "close, f" will close the file (so that subsequent
I/O operations will fail) and print a warning message about the
outstanding ("stale") references.
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open,
read,
write,
rdline,
bookmark,
backup,
save,
restore,
rename,
remove
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close102
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close102 is a keyword for createb or updateb,
open102 is a keyword for openb or updateb
close102_default is a global variable (initially 0)
***Do not use close102_default -- use at_pdb_close
-- this is for backward compatibility only***
close102=1 means to close the PDB file "Major-Order:102"
close102=0 means close it "Major-Order:101"
if not specified, uses 1 if close102_default non-zero,
otherwise the value specified in at_pdb_close
open102=1 means to ignore what the PDB file says internally,
and open it as if it were "Major-Order:102"
open102=0 (the default) means to assume the PDB file is
correctly writen
open102=2 means to assume that the file is incorrectly
written, whichever way it is marked
open102=3 means to ignore what the PDB file says internally,
and open it as if it were "Major-Order:101"
The PDB file format comes in two styles, "Major-Order:101", and
"Major-Order:102". Yorick interprets these correctly by default,
but other codes may ignore them, or write them incorrectly.
Unlike Yorick, not all codes are able to correctly read both
styles. If you are writing a file which needs to be read by
a "102 style" code, create it with the close102=1 keyword.
If you notice that a file you though was a history file isn't, or
that the dimensions of multi-dimensional variables are transposed
from the order you expected, the code which wrote the file probably
blew it. Try openb("filename", open102=2). The choices 1 and 3
are for cases in which you know the writing code was supposed to
write the file one way or the other, and you don't want to be
bothered.
The open102 and close102 keywords, if present, override the
defaults in the variables at_pdb_open and at_pdb_close.
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at_pdb_open,
at_pdb_close
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collect
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result= collect(f, name_string)
scans through all records of the history file F accumulating the
variable NAME_STRING into a single array with one additional
index varying from 1 to the number of records.
NAME_STRING can be either a simple variable name, or a name
followed by up to four simple indices which are either nil, an
integer, or an index range with constant limits. (Note that
0 or negative indices count from the end of a dimension.)
Examples:
collect(f, "xle") -- collects the variable f.xle
collect(f, "tr(2,2:)") -- collects f.tr(2,2:)
collect(f, "akap(2,-1:0,)") -- collects f.akap(2,-1:0,)
(i.e.- akap in the last two values of its
second index)
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get_times
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conj
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conj(z)
returns the complex conjugate of its argument.
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copyright
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copyright, (no) warranty
Copyright (c) 1996. The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Yorick is provided "as is" without any warranty, either expressed or
implied. For a complete statement, type:
legal
at the Yorick prompt.
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SEE ALSO:
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legal
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cray_primitives
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cray_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to Cray 1, XMP, and YMP.
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create
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f= create(filename)
is a synonym for f= open(filename, "w")
Creates a new text file FILENAME, destroying any existing file of
that name. Use the write function to write into the file F.
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SEE ALSO:
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write,
close,
open
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createb
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file= createb(filename)
or file= createb(filename, primitives)
creates FILENAME as a PDB file in "w+b" mode, destroying any
existing file by that name. If the PRIMITIVES argument is
supplied, it must be the name of a procedure that sets the
primitive data types for the file. The default is to create
a file with the native primitive types of the machine on which
Yorick is running. The following PRIMITIVES functions are
predefined:
sun_primitives -- appropriate for Sun, HP, IBM, and
most other workstations
sun3_primitives -- appropriate for old Sun-2 or Sun-3
dec_primitives -- appropriate for DEC (MIPS) workstations, Windows
alpha_primitives -- appropriate for DEC alpha workstations
sgi64_primitives -- appropriate for 64 bit SGI workstations
cray_primitives -- appropriate for Cray 1, XMP, and YMP
mac_primitives -- appropriate for MacIntosh
macl_primitives -- appropriate for MacIntosh, 12-byte double
i86_primitives -- appropriate for Linux i86 machines
pc_primitives -- appropriate for IBM PC
vax_primitives -- appropriate for VAXen only (H doubles)
vaxg_primitives -- appropriate for VAXen only (G doubles)
xdr_primitives -- appropriate for XDR files
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
cd,
save,
add_record,
set_filesize,
set_blocksize,
close102,
close102_default,
at_pdb_open,
at_pdb_close
|
data_align
|
data_align, file, alignment
in binary file FILE, align new variables to begin at a byte address
which is a multiple of ALIGNMENT. (This affects placement of data
declared using save and add_variable. For add_variable, data_align
has an effect only if the address is not specified.) If ALIGNMENT
is <=0, new variables will be aligned as they would be if they were
data structure members. The default value is 0.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
save,
add_variable
|
dbexit
|
Debug mode.
Yorick errors fall into two general categories: Syntax errors discovered
during parsing, and runtime errors discovered when a Yorick program is
actually running. When a runtime error occurs, Yorick offers the
choice of entering "debug mode", which you can do by typing the
key immediately after the error occurs. Typing a non-blank line exits
debug mode automatically by default. In debug mode, the Yorick prompt
becomes "dbug>" instead of the usual ">". When you see this prompt,
Yorick has halted "in the middle of" the function in which the error
occurred, and you can print, plot, modify, or save the local variables
in that function by means of ordinary Yorick commands. Debug mode is
recursive; that is, you can debug an error which occurred during
debugging to any number of levels.
You can exit from debug mode in several ways:
dbexit -- exit current debug level, discarding all
active functions and their local variables
dbexit, 0 -- exit all debug levels
dbexit, n -- exit (at most) N debug levels
dbcont -- continue execution of the current function
Continuing is useful if you have managed to repair the
problem which caused the error. The expression in which the
error occurred will be evaluated a second time, so beware of
side effects.
dbret, value -- continue execution by returning VALUE (which
may be nil or omitted) to the caller of the
function in which the error occurred.
This is useful if the function in which the error occurred is
hopelessly confounded, but you know the value it should return.
Yorick does not allow "single stepping" directly, although you can
execute the statements in a function by copying them, then tell
Yorick to skip those statements you have executed "by hand". There
are two functions for skipping execution:
dbskip -- skip the next logical line (This will be only
a portion of a source line if several statements
are stacked on the source line.)
dbskip, n -- skip next N (positive or negative) logical lines
dbup -- discard the current function, so that you are
debugging its caller -- there is no way to go
back "down", so be careful
There are two functions which print information (like other print
functions, if called as functions instead of subroutines, their
result is returned as a string array with one line per string):
dbinfo -- returns current function and source line
dbdis -- returns disassembled virtual machine code
for the next line (use the disassemble function
to get the entire function)
This allows you to see exactly where in a line the error occurred.
Finally,
dbauto -- toggles whether debug mode will be entered
automatically when a runtime error occurs
dbauto, 1 -- enter debug mode automatically after an error
dbauto, 0 -- type after error to enter debug mode
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dec_primitives
|
dec_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to DEC (MIPS) workstations.
|
digitize
|
digitize(x, bins)
returns an array of longs with dimsof(X), and values i such that
BINS(i-1) <= X < BINS(i) if BINS is monotonically increasing, or
BINS(i-1) > X >= BINS(i) if BINS is monotonically decreasing.
Beyond the bounds of BINS, returns either i=1 or i=numberof(BINS)+1
as appropriate.
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SEE ALSO:
|
histogram,
interp,
integ,
sort,
where,
where2
|
dimsof
|
dimsof(object)
or dimsof(object1, object2, ...)
returns a vector of integers describing the dimensions of OBJECT.
The format of the vector is [number of dims, length1, length2, ...].
The orgsof function returns the origin of each dimension (normally 1).
If more than one argument is given, dimsof returns the dimension
list of the result of binary operations between all the objects,
or nil if the objects are not conformable.
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SEE ALSO:
|
typeof,
structof,
numberof,
sizeof,
orgsof
|
disassemble
|
disassemble(function)
or disassemble, function
Disassembles the specified function. If called as a function, the
result is returned as a vector of strings; if called as a subroutine,
the disassembly is printed at the terminal. If the function is nil,
the current *main* program is disassembled -- you must include the
call to disassemble in the main program, of course, NOT on its own
line as a separate main program.
|
dump_clog
|
dump_clog, file, clog_name
dumps a Contents Log of the binary file FILE into the text file
CLOG_NAME. Any previous file named CLOG_NAME is overwritten.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
openb
|
edit_times
|
edit_times, file
or edit_times, file, keep_list
or edit_times, file, keep_list, new_times, new_ncycs
edits the records for FILE. The KEEP_LIST is a 0-origin index list
of records to be kept, or nil to keep all records. The NEW_TIMES
array is the list of new time values for the (kept) records, and
the NEW_NCYCS array is the list of new cycle number values for the
(kept) records. Either NEW_TIMES, or NEW_NCYCS, or both, may be
nil to leave the corresponding values unchanged. If non-nil,
NEW_TIMES and NEW_NCYCS must have the same length as KEEP_LIST,
or, if KEEP_LIST is nil, as the original number of records in
the file. If KEEP_LIST, NEW_TIME, and NEW_NCYCS are all omitted
or nil, then edit_times removes records as necessary to ensure
that the remaining records have monotonically increasing times,
or, if no times are present, monotonically increasing ncycs.
(The latest record at any given time/ncyc is retained, and earlier
records are removed.)
In no case does edit_times change the FILE itself; only Yorick's
in-memory model of the file is altered.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
get_times,
get_ncycs,
jt,
jc
|
eq_nocopy
|
eq_nocopy, y, x
is the same as
y= x
except that if x is an array, it is not copied, even if it is
not a temporary (i.e.- an expression). Having multiple variables
reference the same data can be confusing, which is why the default
= operation copies the array. The most important use of eq_nocopy
involves pointers or lists:
y= *py
z= _car(list)
always causes the data pointed to by py to be copied, while
eq_nocopy, y, *py
eq_nocopy, z, _car(list)
does not copy the data - often more nearly what you wanted.
Note that scalar int, long, and double variables are always copied,
so you cannot count on eq_nocopy setting up an "equivalence"
between variables.
|
error
|
exit, msg
error, msg
Exits the current interpreted *main* program, printing the MSG.
(MSG can be omitted to print a default.)
In the case of exit, the result is equivalent to an immediate
return from every function in the current calling chain.
In the case of error, the result is the same as if an error had
occurred in a compiled routine.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
print,
write,
batch,
catch
|
expm1
|
expm1(x)
or expm1(x, ex)
return exp(X)-1 accurate to machine precision (even for X<<1)
in the second form, returns exp(x) to EX
|
SEE ALSO:
|
exp,
log1p
|
fflush
|
fflush, file
flush the I/O buffers for the text file FILE. (Binary files are
flushed at the proper times automatically.) You should only need
this after a write, especially to a pipe.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
write,
popen
|
floor
|
floor(x)
returns the largest integer not greater than x (no-op on integers).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
ceil
|
get_addrs
|
addr_lists= get_addrs(file)
returns the byte addresses of the non-record and record variables
in the binary file FILE, and lists of the record addresses, file
indices, and filenames for file families with history records.
*addr_lists(1) absolute addresses of non-record variables
*addr_lists(2) relative addresses of record variables
(add record address to get absolute address)
The order of these two address lists matches the
corresponding lists of names returned by get_vars.
*addr_lists(3) absolute addresses of records
*addr_lists(4) list of file indices corresponding to
addr_lists(3); indices are into addr_lists(5)
*addr_lists(5) list of filenames in the family
|
SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
restore,
jt,
jc,
has_records,
get_vars
|
get_cwd
|
get_cwd()
or get_home()
returns the pathname of the current working directory or of your
home directory.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
cd,
lsdir,
get_env,
get_argv
|
get_env
|
get_env(environment_variable_name)
returns the environment variable (a string) associated with
ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME (calls ANSI getenv routine).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
cd,
get_cwd,
get_home,
get_env,
get_argv
|
get_member
|
get_member(f_or_s, member_name)
returns F_OR_S member MEMBER_NAME, like F_OR_S.MEMBER_NAME syntax,
but MEMBER_NAME can be a computed string. The F_OR_S may be a
binary file or a structure instance.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
openb
|
get_pkgnames
|
get_pkgnames(all)
returns list of package names, ALL non-zero means to return both
statically and dynamically loaded packages, otherwise just the
initial statically loaded packages.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
get_path
|
get_primitives
|
prims = get_primitives(file)
Return the primitive data types for FILE as an array of 32
integers. The format is described under set_primitives.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
set_primitives,
__xdr,
__i86
|
get_times
|
times= get_times(file)
ncycs= get_ncycs(file)
returns the list of time or ncyc values associated with the records
if FILE, or nil if there are none. The time values are not guaranteed
to be precise (but they should be good to at least 6 digits or so);
the precise time associated with each record may be stored as a record
variable.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
collect,
openb,
updateb,
restore,
jt,
jc,
edit_times
|
get_vars
|
name_lists= get_vars(file)
returns the lists of non-record and record variable names in the
binary FILE. The return value is an array of two pointers to
arrays of type string; *name_lists(1) is the array of non-record
variable names (or nil if there are none), *name_lists(2) is the
array of record variable names.
The get_addrs function returns corresponding lists of disk
addresses; the get_member function can be used in conjunction
with the dimsof, structof, and typeof functions to determine
the other properties of a variable.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
restore,
jt,
jc,
has_records,
get_addrs,
set_vars
|
grow
|
grow, x, xnext1, xnext2, ...
or grow(x, xnext1, xnext2, ...)
or _(x, xnext1, xnext2, ...)
lengthens the array X by appending XNEXT1, XNEXT2, etc. to its
final dimension. If X is nil, X is first redefined to the first
non-nil XNEXT, and the remainder of the XNEXT list is processed
normally. Each XNEXT is considered to have the same number of
dimensions as X, by appending unit-length dimensions if necessary.
All but this final dimension of each XNEXT must be right-conformable
(that is, conformable in the sense of the right hand side of an
assignment statement) with all but the final dimension of X.
The result has a final dimension which is the sum of the final
dimension of X and all the final dimensions of the XNEXT. Nil
XNEXT are ignored. The value of the result is obtained by
concatenating all the XNEXT to X, after any required broadcasts.
If invoked as a function, grow returns the new value of X; in
this case, X may be an expression. X must be a simple variable
reference for the subroutine form of grow; otherwise there is
nowhere to return the result. The subroutine form is slightly
more efficient than the function form for the common usage:
x= grow(x, xnext1, xnext2) is the same as
grow, x, xnext1, xnext2 the preferred form
The _ function is a synonym for grow, for people who want this
operator to look like punctuation in their source code, on analogy
with the array building operator [a, b, c, ...].
The _cat function is sometimes more appropriate than grow.
Usage note:
Never do this:
while (more_data) grow, result, datum;
The time to complete this loop scales as the SQUARE of the number
of passes! Instead, do this:
for (i=1,result=array(things,n_init) ; more_data ; i++) {
if (i>numberof(result)) grow, result, result;
result(i) = datum;
}
result = result(1:i-1);
The time to complete this loop scales as n*log(n), because the
grow operation doubles the length of the result each time.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
_cat,
array
|
has_records
|
has_records(file)
returns 1 if FILE has history records, 0 if it does not.
|
help
|
help, topic
or help
Prints DOCUMENT comment from include file in which the variable
TOPIC was defined, followed by the line number and filename.
By opening the file with a text editor, you may be able to find
out more, especially if no DOCUMENT comment was found.
Examples:
help, set_path
prints the documentation for the set_path function.
help
prints the DOCUMENT comment you are reading.
This copy of Yorick was launched from the directory:
**** Y_LAUNCH (computed at runtime) ****
Yorick's "site directory" at this site is:
**** Y_SITE (computed at runtime) ****
You can find out a great deal more about Yorick by browsing
through these directories. Begin with the site directory,
and pay careful attention to the subdirectories doc/ (which
contains documentation relating to Yorick), and i/ and
contrib/ (which contain many examples of Yorick programs).
Look for files called README (or something similar) in any
of these directories -- they are intended to assist browsers.
The site directory itself contains std.i and graph.i, which
are worth reading.
Type:
help, dbexit
for help on debug mode. If your prompt is "dbug>" instead of
">", dbexit will return you to normal mode.
Type:
quit
to quit Yorick.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
quit,
info,
print,
copyright,
warranty,
legal
|
histinv
|
list = histinv(hist)
returns a list whose histogram is HIST, hist = histogram(list),
that is, hist(1) 1's followed by hist(2) 2's, followed by hist(3)
3's, and so on. The total number of elements in the returned
list is sum(hist). All values in HIST must be non-negative;
if sum(hist)==0, histinv returns []. The input HIST array may
have any number of dimensions; the result will always be either
nil or a 1D array.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
histogram
|
histogram
|
histogram(list)
or histogram(list, weight)
returns an array hist which counts the number of occurrences of each
element of the input index LIST, which must consist of positive
integers (1-origin index values into the result array):
histogram(list)(i) = number of occurrences of i in LIST
A second argument WEIGHT must have the same shape as LIST; the result
will be the sum of WEIGHT:
histogram(list)(i) = sum of all WEIGHT(j) where LIST(j)==i
The result of the single argument call will be of type long; the
result of the two argument call will be of type double (WEIGHT is
promoted to that type). The input argument(s) may have any number
of dimensions; the result is always 1-D.
KEYWORD: top=max_list_value
By default, the length of the result is max(LIST). You may
specify that the result have a larger length by means of the TOP
keyword. (Elements beyond max(LIST) will be 0, of course.)
|
SEE ALSO:
|
digitize,
sort,
histinv
|
i86_primitives
|
i86_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to Linux i86 machines.
|
im_part
|
im_part(z)
returns the imaginary part of its argument.
Unlike z.im, works if z is not complex (returns zero).
|
include
|
#include "yorick_source.i"
require, filename
include, filename
or include, filename, now
#include is a parser directive, not a Yorick statement. Use it
to read Yorick source code which you have saved in a file; the
file yorick_source.i will be read one line at a time, exactly as
if you had typed those lines at the keyboard. The following
directories are searched (in this order) to find yorick_source.i:
. (current working directory)
~/yorick (your personal directory of Yorick functions)
~/Yorick (your personal directory of Yorick functions)
Y_SITE/i (Yorick distribution library)
Y_SITE/contrib (contributed source at your site)
Y_SITE/i0 (Yorick startup and package include files)
Y_HOME/lib (Yorick architecture dependent include files)
To find out what is available in the Y_SITE/i directory,
type:
library
You can also type
Y_SITE
to find the name of the site directory at your site, go to the
include or contrib subdirectory, and browse through the *.i files.
This is a good way to learn how to write a Yorick program. Be
alert for files like README as well.
The require function checks to see whether FILENAME has already
been included (actually whether any file with the same final
path component has been included). If so, require is a no-op,
otherwise, the action is the same as the include function with
NOW == 1.
The include function causes Yorick to parse and execute FILENAME
immediately. The effect is similar to the #include parser
directive, except the finding, parsing, and execution of FILENAME
occurs at runtime. The NOW argument has the following meanings:
NOW == -1 filename pushed onto stack, popped and parsed
when all pending input is exhausted
NOW == 0 (or nil, default) parsed just before next input
line would be parsed
NOW == 1 parsed immediately, resuming current interpreted
program when finished (like require)
NOW == 2 like 0, except no error if filename does not exist
NOW == 3 like 1, except no error if filename does not exist
Unless you are writing a startup file, or have some truly bizarre
technical reason for using the include function, use #include
instead. The functional form of include may involve recursive
parsing, which you will not be able to understand without deep
study. Stick with #include.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
set_path,
Y_SITE,
plug_in,
autoload,
include_all
|
include_all
|
include_all, dir1, dir2, ...
include all files in directories DIR1, DIR2, ..., with names
ending in the ".i" extension. (This is mostly for use to load
the i-start directories when yorick starts; see i0/stdx.i.)
If any of the DIRi do not exist, or are empty, they are
silently skipped. Filenames beginning with "." are also skipped,
even if they end in ".i". The files are included in alphabetical
order, DIR1 first, then DIR2, and so on.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
include,
autoload
|
indgen
|
indgen(n)
or indgen(start:stop)
or indgen(start:stop:step)
returns "index generator" list -- an array of longs running from
1 to N, inclusive. In the second and third forms, the index
values specified by the index range are returned.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
span,
spanl,
array
|
info
|
info, expr
prints the data type and array dimensions of EXPR.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
help,
print
|
install_struct
|
install_struct, file, struct_name
or install_struct, file, struct_name, size, align, order
or install_struct, file, struct_name, size, align, order, layout
installs the data type named STRUCT_NAME in the binary FILE. In
the two argument form, STRUCT_NAME must have been built by one or
more calls to the add_member function. In the 5 and 6 argument calls,
STRUCT_NAME is a primitive data type -- an integer type for the 5
argument call, and a floating point type for the 6 argument call.
The 5 argument form may also be used to declare opaque data types.
SIZE is the size of an instance in bytes, ALIGN is its alignment
boundary (also in bytes), and ORDER is the byte order. ORDER is
1 for most significant byte first, -1 for least significant byte
first, and 0 for opaque (unconverted) data. Other ORDER values
represent more complex byte permutations (2 is the byte order for
VAX floating point numbers). If ORDER equals SIZE, then the data
type is not only opaque, but also must be read sequentially.
LAYOUT is an array of 7 long values parameterizing the floating
point format, [sign_address, exponent_address, exponent_size,
mantissa_address, mantissa_size, mantissa_normalized, exponent_bias]
(the addresses and sizes are in bits, reduced to MSB first order).
Use, e.g., nameof(float) for STRUCT_NAME to redefine the meaning
of the float data type for FILE.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
add_variable,
add_member
|
integ
|
integ(y, x, xp)
or integ(y, x, xp, which)
See the interp function for an explanation of the meanings of the
arguments. The integ function returns ypi which is the integral
of the piecewise linear curve (X(i), Y(i)) (i=1, ..., numberof(X))
from X(1) to XP. The curve (X, Y) is regarded as constant outside
the bounds of X. Note that X must be monotonically increasing or
|
SEE ALSO:
|
interp,
digitize,
span
|
interp
|
interp(y, x, xp)
or interp(y, x, xp, which)
returns yp such that (XP, yp) lies on the piecewise linear curve
(X(i), Y(i)) (i=1, ..., numberof(X)). Points beyond X(1) are set
to Y(1); points beyond X(0) are set to Y(0). The array X must be
one dimensional, have numberof(X)>=2, and be either monotonically
increasing or monotonically decreasing. The array Y may have more
than one dimension, but dimension WHICH must be the same length as
X. WHICH defaults to 1, the first dimension of Y. WHICH may be
non-positive to count dimensions from the end of Y; a WHICH of 0
means the final dimension of Y. The result yp has dimsof(XP)
in place of the WHICH dimension of Y (if XP is scalar, the WHICH
dimension is not present). (The dimensions of the result are the
same as if an index list with dimsof(XP) were placed in slot
WHICH of Y.)
|
SEE ALSO:
|
integ,
digitize,
span
|
is_array
|
is_array(object)
returns 1 if OBJECT is an array data type (as opposed to a function,
structure definition, index range, I/O stream, etc.), else 0.
An array OBJECT can be written to or read from a binary file;
non-array Yorick data types cannot.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
is_func,
is_void,
is_range,
is_struct,
is_stream
|
is_func
|
is_func(object)
returns 1 if OBJECT is a Yorick interpreted function, 2 if OBJECT
is a built-in (that is, compiled) function, 3 if OBJECT is an
autoload (will become either 1 or 2 on reference), else 0.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
is_array,
is_void,
is_range,
is_struct,
is_stream,
autoload
|
is_stream
|
is_stream(object)
returns 1 if OBJECT is a binary I/O stream (usually a file), else 0.
The _read and _write functions work on object if and only if
is_stream returns non-zero. Note that is_stream returns 0 for a
text stream -- you need the typeof function to test for those.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
is_array,
is_func,
is_void,
is_range,
is_struct
|
jr
|
jr, file, i
or _jr(file, i)
Jump to a particular record number I (from 1 to n_records) in a
binary file FILE. The function returns 1 if such a record exists,
0 if there is no such record. In the latter case, no action is
taken; the program halts with an error only if jr was invoked
as a subroutine. Record numbering wraps like array indices; use
jr, file, 0 to jump to the last record, -1 to next to last, etc.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
jt,
jc,
edit_times,
show
|
jt
|
jt, time
or jt, file, time
or jt, file
or jt, file, -
jump to the record nearest the specified TIME. If no FILE is
specified, the current record of all open binary files containing
records is shifted.
If both FILE and TIME are specified and jt is called as a function,
it returns the actual time of the new current record.
N.B.: "jt, file" and "jt, file, -" are obsolete. Use the jr function to
step through a file one record at a time.
If only the FILE is specified, increment the current record of that
FILE by one. If the TIME argument is - (the pseudo-index range
function), decrement the current record of FILE by one.
If the current record is the last, "jt, file" unsets the current record
so that record variables will be inaccessible until another jt or jc.
The same thing happens with "jt, file, -" if the current record was the
first.
If only FILE is specified, jt returns 1 if there is a new current
record, 0 if the call resulted in no current record. Thus "jt(file)"
and "jt(file,-)" may be used as the condition in a while loop to step
through every record in a file:
file= openb("example.pdb");
do {
restore, file, interesting_record_variables;
...calculations...
} while (jt(file));
|
SEE ALSO:
|
jc,
_jt,
edit_times,
show,
jr
|
legal
|
legal
Prints the legal details of Yorick's copyright, licensing,
and lack of warranty.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
copyright,
warranty
|
library
|
library
print the Y_SITE/i/README file at the terminal.
|
log1p
|
log1p(x)
return log(1+X) accurate to machine precision (even for X<<1)
from Goldberg, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 23, No 1, March 1991,
apparently originally from HP-15C Advanced Functions Handbook
|
SEE ALSO:
|
expm1,
log1p
|
lsdir
|
files = lsdir(directory_name)
or files = lsdir(directory_name, subdirs)
List DIRECTORY_NAME. The return value FILES is an array of
strings or nil; the order of the filenames is unspecified;
it does not contain "." or ".."; it does not contain the
names of subdirectories. If SUBDIRS is given and is a simple
variable name, it is set to a list of subdirectory names (or
nil if there are no subdirectories).
If DIRECTORY_NAME does not exist, the return value is the
integer 0 rather than nil.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
cd,
mkdir,
rmdir,
get_cwd,
get_home
|
mac_primitives
|
mac_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to MacIntosh, 8 byte double.
|
macl_primitives
|
macl_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to MacIntosh, long double.
|
max
|
max(x)
or max(x, y, z, ...)
returns the scalar maximum value of its array argument, or, if
more than one argument is supplied, returns an array of the
maximum value for each array element among the several arguments.
In the multi-argument case, the arguments must be conformable.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
min,
sum,
avg
|
median
|
median(x)
or median(x, which)
returns the median of the array X. The search for the median takes
place along the dimension of X specified by WHICH. WHICH defaults
to 1, meaning the first index of X. The median function returns an
array with one fewer dimension than its argument X (the WHICH
dimension of X is missing in the result), in exact analogy with
rank reducing index range functions. If dimsof(X)(WHICH) is
odd, the result will have the same data type as X; if even, the
result will be a float or a double, since the median is defined
as the arithmetic mean between the two central values in that
case.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
sort
|
merge
|
merge(true_expr, false_expr, condition)
returns the values TRUE_EXPR or FALSE_EXPR where CONDITION is
non-zero or zero, respectively. The result has the data type of
TRUE_EXPR or FALSE_EXPR, promoted to the higher arithmetic type
if necessary. The result has the dimensions of CONDITION.
The number of elements in TRUE_EXPR must match the number of
non-zero elements of CONDITION, and the number of elements in
FALSE_EXPR must match the number of zero elements of CONDITION.
(TRUE_EXPR or FALSE_EXPR should be nil if there are no such
elements of CONDITION. Normally, TRUE_EXPR and FALSE_EXPR should
be 1-D arrays if they are not nil.)
This function is intended for vectorizing a function whose
domain is divided into two or more parts, as in:
func f(x) {
big= (x>=threshhold);
wb= where(big);
ws= where(!big);
if (is_array(wb)) {
xx= x(wb);
fb=
}
if (is_array(ws)) {
xx= x(ws);
fs=
}
return merge(fb, fs, big);
}
|
SEE ALSO:
|
mergef,
merge2,
where
|
merge2
|
merge2(true_expr, false_expr, condition)
returns the values TRUE_EXPR or FALSE_EXPR where CONDITION is
non-zero or zero, respectively. The result has the data type of
TRUE_EXPR or FALSE_EXPR, promoted to the higher arithmetic type
if necessary. Unlike the merge function, TRUE_EXPR and FALSE_EXPR
must be conformable with each other, and with the CONDITION.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
merge,
where,
mergef
|
mergef
|
y = mergef(x, f1, cond1, f2, cond2, ... felse)
Evaluate F1(X(where(COND1))), F2(X(where(COND2))),
and so on, until FELSE(X(where(!(COND1 | COND2 | ...))))
and merge all the results back into an array Y with the
same dimensions as X. Each of the CONDi must have the
same dimensions as X, and they must be mutally exclusive.
During the evaluation of Fi, note that all of the local
variables of the caller of mergef are available. The
Fi are invoked as Fi(X(mergel)) and the variable mergel
= where(CONDi) is available to the Fi, in case they need
to extract any additional parameters. If noneof(CONDi)
then Fi will not be called at all, otherwise, the Fi are
invoked in order. The return value of Fi must have the same
shape as its argument (which will be a 1D array or scalar).
Use mergeg to construct secondary results the same shape
as X and Y.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
mergeg,
merge
|
mergeg
|
z = mergeg(z, value)
or z = mergeg(z)
If secondary results are to be returned from a mergef, besides
its return value, the Fi may construct them using the second
form of mergef:
z = mergeg(z, value)
where z is a variable in the original caller of mergef,
and value is its value where(CONDi). Note that the variable
name of the first parameter must be the same as the variable
name it is assigned to in this construction -- that variable
is being used to hold the state of z as it is built. After
the outer mergef returns, the caller needs to invoke
z = mergeg(z)
one final time to complete each secondary return value.
z = [];
y = mergef(x, f1, cond, f2);
z = mergeg(z);
...
func f1(x) {
z = mergeg(z, exprz(x));
return expry(x);
}
func f2(x) {
z = mergeg(z, exprz(x));
return expry(x);
}
|
SEE ALSO:
|
mergef,
merge
|
min
|
min(x)
or min(x, y, z, ...)
returns the scalar minimum value of its array argument, or, if
more than one argument is supplied, returns an array of the
minimum value for each array element among the several arguments.
In the multi-argument case, the arguments must be conformable.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
max,
sum,
avg
|
mkdir
|
mkdir, directory_name
rmdir, directory_name
Create DIRECTORY_NAME with mkdir, or remove it with rmdir.
The rmdir function only works if the directory is empty.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
cd,
lsdir,
get_cwd,
get_home
|
nameof
|
nameof(object)
If OBJECT is a function or a structure definition, returns the
name of the func or struct as it was defined (not necessarily
the name of the variable passed to the nameof function).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
typeof
|
open
|
f= open(filename)
or f= open(filename, filemode)
or f= open(filename, filemode, errmode)
opens the file FILENAME according to FILEMODE (both are strings).
If ERRMODE is non-nil and non-zero, fail by returning nil F,
otherwise failure to open or create the file is a runtime error.
To use ERRMODE to check for the existence of a file:
if (open(filename,"r",1)) file_exists;
else file_does_not_exist;
The return value F is an IOStream (or just stream for short). When
the last reference to this return value is discarded, the file will
be closed. The file can also be explicitly closed with the close
function. The FILEMODE determines whether the file is to be
opened in read, write, or update mode, and whether writes are
restricted to the end-of-file (append mode). FILEMODE also
determines whether the file is opened as a text file or as a
binary file. FILEMODE can have the following values, which are
the same as for the ANSI standard fopen function:
"r" - read only
"w" - write only, random access, existing file overwritten
"a" - write only, forced to end-of-file,
existing file preserved
"r+" - read/write, random access, existing file preserved
"w+" - read/write, random access, existing file overwritten
"a+" - read/write, reads random access,
writes forced to end-of-file, existing file preserved
"rb" "wb" "ab" "r+b" "rb+" "w+b" "wb+" "a+b" "ab+"
without b means text file, with b means binary file
The default FILEMODE is "r" -- open an existing text file for
reading.
The read and write functions perform I/O on text files.
I/O to binary files may be performed explicitly using the save
and restore functions, or implicitly by using the stream variable
F as if it were a data structure instance (e.g.- f.x refers to
variable x in the binary file f).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
create,
close,
read,
write,
rdline,
bookmark,
backup,
popen,
rename,
remove,
save,
restore
|
openb
|
file= openb(filename)
or file= openb(filename, clogfile)
open the existing file FILENAME for read-only binary I/O.
(Use updateb or createb, respectively, to open an existing file
with read-write access or to create a new file.)
If the CLOGFILE argument is supplied, it represents the structure
of FILENAME in the Clog binary data description language.
After an openb, the file variable may be used to extract variables
from the file as if it were a structure instance. That is, the
expression "file.var" refers to the variable "var" in file "file".
A complete list of the variable names present in the file may
be obtained using the get_vars function. If the file contains
history records, the jt and jc functions may be used to set the
current record -- initially, the first record is current.
The restore function may be used to make memory copies of data
in the file; this will be faster than a large number of
references to "file.var".
|
SEE ALSO:
|
updateb,
createb,
open,
cd,
show,
jt,
jc,
restore,
get_vars,
get_times,
get_ncycs,
get_member,
has_records,
set_blocksize,
dump_clog,
read_clog,
recover_file,
openb_hooks,
open102,
close102,
get_addrs
|
openb_hooks
|
openb_hooks
list of functions to be tried by openb if the file to be
opened is not a PDB file. By default,
openb_hooks= _lst(_not_pdbf, _not_cdf).
The hook functions will be called with the file as argument
(e.g.- _not_cdf(file)), beginning with _car(openb_hooks), until
one of them returns 0. Note that a hook should return 0 if it
"recognizes" the file as one that it should be able to open, but
finds that the file is misformatted (alternatively, it could call
error to abort the whole process).
|
orgsof
|
orgsof(object)
returns a vector of integers describing the dimensions of OBJECT.
The format of the vector is [number of dims, origin1, origin2, ...].
By default, dimension origins are ignored, but use_origins changes
this. The dimsof function returns the length of each dimension.
*** NOTE NOTE NOTE ***
Unless use_origins(1) is in effect, orgsof will always return
1 for all of the originI in the list. Thus, whether use_origins(1)
is in effect or not, you are guaranteed that x(orgsof(x)(2)) is the
first element of x.
*** DEPRECATED ***
Do not use index origins. Your brain will explode sooner or later.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
dimsof,
typeof,
structof,
numberof,
sizeof,
use_origins
|
pc_primitives
|
pc_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to IBM PC.
|
pi
|
pi
roughly 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
|
plug_dir
|
plug_dir, dirname
causes plug_in to look in DIRNAME for dynamic library files, in
addition to Y_HOME/lib. DIRNAME may be an array of strings to
search multiple directories.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
plug_in
|
plug_in
|
plug_in, "pkgname"
Dynamically link to yorick package "pkgname". The compiled
functions of the package are in a shared object file; these
files have a naming convention which differs slightly on different
platforms. On most UNIX systems (including Mac OS X), the
binary file is named pkgname.so. On MS Windows systems, the
binary file is named pkgname.dll. On HPUX systems, the name is
pkgname.sl. The "pkgname" argument to plug_in does not include
this platform-dependent file extension, so that the yorick code
containing the plug_in command will be portable.
After dynamically linking the compiled routines in the pkgname
shared object binary, yorick runs the function (which must be
present) yk_pkgname in order to initialize the package. At
minimum yk_pkgname returns lists of the new compiled (builtin)
functions defined by the package and the names by which they
may be invoked by interpreted code.
Additionally, yk_pkgname returns a list of files to be included
containing interpreted wrapper functions for the compiled routines
and DOCUMENT comments for the help system. Conventionally, these
include files are located in the Y_SITE/i0 or Y_HOME/lib directories,
and the name (of one) of the file(s) is pkgname.i. If the package
has been statically linked (i.e.- not by plug_in), these .i files
are automatically included when yorick starts. However, if the
package is loaded dynamically by plug_in, you must arrange to
include one or all of these .i files as you would any interpreted
package (e.g.- by the autoload or require functions, or manually).
The upshot of all this is that the plug_in function is designed
to be placed at the top of the .i files associated with the
package. You are not supposed to call plug_in manually, rather
when you #include (or autoload) a .i file which needs compiled
functions, that .i file invokes plug_in to perform any required
dynamic linking to compiled code. Thus, the end user does not
do anything differently for a package that uses dynamically loaded
compiled code, than for a purely interpreted package.
Yorick dynamic library support solves a distribution problem. For
debugging and creating compiled packages for your own use, you want
to build special versions of yorick with your compiled routines
statically linked. In order to support platforms on which there
is no dynamic linking, if you call the plug_in function for a
package that is statically linked (e.g.- plug_in,"yor"), the
function will silently become a no-op when it notices that the
"pkgname" package was already loaded at startup.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
plug_dir,
include,
require,
autoload
|
poly
|
poly(x, a0, a1, a2, ..., aN)
returns the polynomial A0 + A1*x + A2*x^2 + ... + AN*X^N
The data type and dimensions of the result, and conformability rules
for the inputs are identical to those for the expression.
|
popen
|
f= popen(command, mode)
opens a pipe to COMMAND, which is executed as with the system
function. If MODE is 0, the returned file handle is open for
reading, and you are reading the stdout produced by COMMAND.
If MODE is 1, f is opened for writing and you are writing to
the stdin read by COMMAND.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
open,
system
|
pr1
|
pr1(x)
returns text representing expression X, equivalent to print(X)(1).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
print,
swrite
|
print
|
print, object1, object2, object3, ...
or print(object1, object2, object3, ...)
prints an ASCII representation of the OBJECTs, in roughly the format
they could appear in Yorick source code. When invoked as a subroutine
(in the first form), output is to the terminal. When invoked as a
function (int the second form), the output is stored as a vector of
strings, one string per line that would have been output.
Printing a structure definition prints the structure definition;
printing a function prints its "func" definition; printing files,
bookmarks, and other objects generally provides some sort of
useful description of the object.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
pr1,
print_format,
write,
exit,
error,
nameof,
typeof
|
print_format
|
print_format, line_length, char=, short=, int=, float=,
double=, complex=, pointer=
sets the format string the print function will use for each of
the basic data types. Yorick format strings are the same as the
format strings for the printf function defined in the ANSI C standard.
The default strings may be restored individually by setting the
associated format string to ""; all defaults are restored if
print_format is invoked with no arguments. The default format strings
are: "0x%02x", "%d", "%d", "%ld", "%g", "%g", and "%g%+gi".
Note that char and short values are converted to int before being
passed to printf, and that float is converted to double.
If present, an integer positional argument is taken as the line
length; <=0 restores the default line length of 80 characters.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
print,
write,
nameof,
typeof
|
process_argv
|
remaining= process_argv()
-or- remaining= process_argv("your startup message")
Performs standard command line processing. This function is
invoked by the default custom.i file (in $Y_SITE/i); you
can also invoke it from your personal ~/yorick/custom.i file.
The process_argv calls get_argv, removes any arguments of
the form "-ifilename" or "-i filename" (the latter is a pair of
arguments. It returns any arguments not of this form as its
result, after including any filenames it found in the order
they appeared on the command line.
The optional string argument may be an array of strings to print
a multi-line message.
A Yorick package may define the function get_command_line in
order to feed process_argv something other than get_argv.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
batch
|
ptcen
|
ptcen(zncen)
or ptcen(zncen, ireg)
returns point centered version of the 2-D zone centered array ZNCEN.
The result is imax-by-jmax if ZNCEN is (imax-1)-by-(jmax-1).
If the region number array IREG is specified, zones with region
number 0 are not included in the point centering operation.
Note that IREG should have dimensions imax-by-jmax; the first
row and column of IREG are ignored.
Without IREG, ptcen(zncen) is equivalent to zncen(pcen,pcen).
|
SEE ALSO:
|
zncen,
uncen
|
quit
|
quit
Exit YMainLoop when current task finishes.
Normally this terminates the program.
|
random
|
random(dimension_list)
random_seed, seed
returns an array of random double values with the given
DIMENSION_LIST (nil for a scalar result), uniformly distributed
on the interval from 0.0 to 1.0.
The algorithm is from Press and Teukolsky, Computers in Physics,
vol. 6, no. 5, Sep/Oct 1992 (ran2). They offer a reward of $1000
to anyone who can exhibit a statistical test that this random
number generator fails in a "non-trivial" way.
The random_seed call reinitializes the random number sequence;
SEED should be between 0.0 and 1.0 non-inclusive; if SEED is
omitted, nil, or out of range, the sequence is reinitialized as
when Yorick starts.
The numbers are actually at the centers of 2147483562 equal width
bins on the interval [0,1]. Although only these 2 billion numbers
are possible, the period of the generator is roughly 2.3e18.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
randomize
|
randomize
|
randomize
randomize()
set the seed for random "randomly" (based on the timer clock
and the current state of random). As a function, returns the
value of the seed passed to random_seed.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
random,
random_seed
|
rdfile
|
rdfile(f)
or rdfile(f, nmax)
reads all remaining lines (or at most NMAX lines) from file F.
If NMAX is omitted, it defaults to 2^20 lines (about a million).
The result is an array of strings, one per line of F.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
rdline
|
rdline
|
rdline(f)
or rdline(f, n, prompt= pstring)
returns next line from stream F (stdin if F nil). If N is non-nil,
returns a string array containing the next N lines of F. If
end-of-file occurs, rdline returns nil strings. If F is nil,
uses the PSTRING to prompt for input (default "read> ").
|
SEE ALSO:
|
read,
open,
close,
bookmark,
backup,
read_n,
rdfile
|
re_part
|
re_part(z)
returns the real part of its argument. (Same as double(z).)
Unlike z.re, works if z is not complex.
|
read
|
n= read(f, format=fstring, obj1, obj2, ...)
or n= read(prompt= pstring, format=fstring, obj1, obj2, ...)
or n= sread(source, format=fstring, obj1, obj2, ...)
reads text from I/O stream F (1st form), or from the keyboard (2nd
form), or from the string or string array SOURCE (3rd form),
interprets it according to the optional FSTRING, and uses that
interpretation to assign values to OBJ1, OBJ2, ... If the input
is taken from the keyboard, the optional prompt PSTRING (default
"read> ") is printed before each line is read. The Yorick write
function does not interact with the read function -- writes are
always to end-of-file, and do not affect the sequence of lines
returned by read. The backup (and bookmark) function is the
only way to change the sequence of lines returned by read.
There must be one non-supressed conversion specifier (see below)
in FSTRING for each OBJ to be read; the type of the conversion
specifier must generally match the type of the OBJ. That is,
an integer OBJ requires an integer specifier (d, i, o, u, or x)
in FSTRING, a real OBJ requires a real specifier (e, f, or g),
and a string OBJ requires a string specifier (s or []). An OBJ
may not be complex, a pointer, a structure instance, or any non-
array Yorick object. If FSTRING is not supplied, or if it has
fewer conversion specifiers than the number of OBJ arguments,
then Yorick supplies default specifiers ("%ld" for integers,
"%lg" for reals, and "%s" for strings). If FSTRING contains more
specifiers than there are OBJ arguments, the part of FSTRING
beginning with the first specifier with no OBJ is ignored.
The OBJ may be scalar or arrays, but the dimensions of every OBJ
must be identical. If the OBJ are arrays, Yorick behaves as
if the read were called in a loop numberof(OBJ1) times, filling
one array element of each of the OBJ according to FSTRING on
each pass through the loop. (Note that this behavior includes
the case of reading columns of numbers by a single call to read.)
The return value N is the total number of scalar assignments
which were made as a result of this call. (If there were 4
OBJ arguments, and each was an array with 17 elements, a return
value of N==35 would mean the following: The first 8 elements
of OBJ1, OBJ2, OBJ3, and OBJ4 were read, and the 9th element of
OBJ1, OBJ2, and OBJ3 was read.) The read function sets any
elements of the OBJ which were not read to zero -- hence,
independent of the returned N, the all of the old data in the
OBJ arguments is overwritten.
The read or sread functions continue reading until either:
(1) all elements of all OBJ have been filled, or (2) end-of-file
(or end of SOURCE for sread) is reached ("input failure"), or
(3) part of FSTRING or a conversion specifier supplied by
default fails to match the source text ("matching failure").
The FSTRING is composed of a series of "directives" which are
(1) whitespace -- means to skip any amount of whitespace in the
source text
(2) characters other than whitespace and % -- must match the
characters in the source text exactly, or matching failure
occurs and the read operation stops
(3) conversion specifiers beginning with % and ending with a
character specifying the type of conversion -- optionally
skip whitespace, then convert as many characters as
continue to "look like" the conversion type, possibly
producing a matching failure
The conversion specifier is of the form %*WSC, where:
is either the character '*' or not present
A specifier beginning with %* does not correspond to any of
the OBJ; the converted value will be discarded.
W is either a positive decimal integer specifying the maximum
field width (not including any skipped leading whitespace),
or not present if any number of characters up to end-of-line
is acceptable.
S is either one of the characters 'h', 'l', or 'L', or not
present. Yorick allows this for compatibility with the C
library functions, but ignores it.
C is a character specifying the type of conversion:
d - decimal integer
i - decimal, octal (leading 0), or hex (leading 0x) integer
o - octal integer
u - unsigned decimal integer (same as d for Yorick)
x, X - hex integer
e, f, g, E, G - floating point real
s - string of non-whitespace characters
[xxx] - (xxx is any sequence of characters) longest string
of characters matching those in the list
[^xxx] - longest string of characters NOT matching those in
the list (this is how you can extend %s to be
delimited by something other than whitespace)
% - the ordinary % character; complete conversion
specification must be "%%"
The read function is modeled on the ANSI standard C library
fscanf and sscanf functions, but differs in several respects:
(1) Yorick's read cannot handle the %c, %p, or %n conversion
specifiers in FSTRING.
(2) Yorick's read never results in a portion of a line
being read -- any unused part of a line is simply discarded
(end FSTRING with "%[^\n]" if you want to save the trailing
part of an input line).
(3) As a side effect of (2), there are some differences between
fscanf and Yorick's read in how whitespace extending across
newlines is handled.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
rdline,
write,
open,
close,
bookmark,
backup,
save,
restore,
read_n
|
read_clog
|
file= read_clog(file, clog_name)
raw routine to set the binary data structure of FILE according
to the text description in the Contents Log file CLOG_NAME.
|
read_n
|
read_n, f, n0, n1, n2, ...
grabs the next numbers N0, N1, N2, ... from file F, skipping over
any whitespace, comma, semicolon, or colon delimited tokens which
are not numbers. (Actually, only the first and last characters of
the token have to look like a number -- 4xxx3 would be read as 4.)
***WARNING*** at most ten Ns are allowed
The Ns can be arrays, provided all have the same dimensions.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
read,
rdline
|
recover_file
|
recover_file, filename
or recover_file, filename, clogfile
writes the descriptive information at the end of a corrupted
binary file FILENAME from its Contents Log file CLOGFILE, which
is FILENAME+"L" by default.
|
reform
|
reform(x, dimlist)
returns array X reshaped according to dimension list DIMLIST.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
array,
dimsof
|
rename
|
rename, old_filename, new_filename
remove filename
rename or remove a file.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
open,
close,
openb
|
reshape
|
reshape, reference, address, type, dimension_list
or reshape, reference, type, dimension_list
or reshape, reference
The REFERENCE must be an unadorned variable, not an expression;
reshape sets this variable to an LValue at the specified ADDRESS
with the specified TYPE and DIMENSION_LIST. (See the array
function documentation for acceptable DIMENSION_LIST formats.)
If ADDRESS is an integer (e.g.- a long), the programmer is
responsible for assuring that the data at ADDRESS is valid.
If ADDRESS is a (Yorick) pointer, Yorick will assure that the
data pointed to will not be discarded, and the reshape will
fail if TYPE and DIMENSION_LIST extend beyond the pointee
bounds. In the second form, ADDRESS is taken to be &REFERENCE;
that is, the TYPE and DIMENSION_LIST of the variable are changed
without doing any type conversion. In the third form, REFERENCE
is set to nil ([]). (Simple redefinition will not work on a
variable defined using reshape.)
WARNING: There are almost no situations for which reshape is
the correct operation. Use reform instead.
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SEE ALSO:
|
reform,
array,
dimsof,
numberof,
is_array,
eq_nocopy
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save
|
save, file, var1, var2, ...
restore, file, var1, var2, ...
saves the variables VAR1, VAR2, etc. in the binary file FILE,
or restores them from that file.
The VARi may be either non-record or record data in the case that
FILE contains records.
If one of the VARi does not already exist in FILE, it is created
by the save command; after add_record, save adds or stores VARi to
the current record. See add_record for more. The VARi may be
structure definitions (for the save command) to declare data
structures for the file. This is necessary only in the case that
a record variable is a pointer -- all of the potential data types
of pointees must be known. No data structures may be declared
using the save command after the first record has been added.
If no VARi are present, save saves all array variables, and
restore restores every non-record variable in the file if there
is no current record, and every variable in the current record if
there is one.
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
createb,
updateb,
get_vars,
add_record,
get_addrs,
jt,
jc,
_read,
_write,
data_align
|
sech
|
sech(x)
csch(x)
returns the hyperbolic secant (1/cosh) or cosecant (1/sinh) of
its argument, without overflowing for large x.
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SEE ALSO:
|
sinh,
cosh,
tanh,
asinh,
acosh,
atanh
|
set_blocksize
|
set_blocksize, file, blocksize
sets smallest cache block size for FILE to BLOCKSIZE. BLOCKSIZE
is rounded to the next larger number of the form 4096*2^n if
necessary; cache blocks for this file will be multiples of
BLOCKSIZE bytes long. The default BLOCKSIZE is 0x4000 (16 KB).
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
createb,
save,
restore,
_read,
_write
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set_filesize
|
set_filesize, file, filesize
sets the new family member threshhold for FILE to FILESIZE.
Whenever a new record is added (see add_record), if the current file
in the FILE family has at least one record and the new record would
cause the current file to exceed FILESIZE bytes, a new family
member will be created to hold the new record.
Note that set_filesize must be called after the first call to
add_record.
The default FILESIZE is 0x800000 (8 MB).
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
createb,
add_record
|
set_idler
|
set_idler, idler_function
sets the idler function to IDLER_FUNCTION. Instead of waiting
for keyboard input when all its tasks are finished, the interpreter
will invoke IDLER_FUNCTION with no arguments. The idler function
is normally invoked only once, so input from the keyboard resumes
after one call to the idler. Of course, an idler is free to call
set_idler again before it returns, which will have the effect of
calling that function in a loop.
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SEE ALSO:
|
batch
|
set_path
|
set_path, "dir1:dir2:dir3:..."
or set_path
sets the include file search path to the specified list of
directories. The specified directories are searched left to
right for include files specified as relative file names in
#include directives, or to the include or require functions.
If the argument is omitted, restores the default search path,
".:~/yorick:~/Yorick:Y_SITE/i:Y_SITE/contrib:Y_SITE/i0:Y_HOME/lib",
where y_site is the main Yorick directory for this site.
The Y_LAUNCH directory is the directory which contains the
executable; this directory is omitted if it is the same as
Y_SITE.
Only the "end user" should ever call set_path, and then only in
his or her custom.i file, for the purpose of placing a more
elaborate set of personal directories containing Yorick procedures.
For example, if someone else maintains Yorick code you use, you
might put their ~/yorick on your include path.
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SEE ALSO:
|
Y_LAUNCH,
Y_SITE,
include,
require,
get_path
|
set_primitives
|
set_primitives, file, prims
Return the primitive data types for FILE as an array of 32
integers. Versions for particular machines are defined in
prmtyp.i, and can be accessed using functions like
sun_primitives or i86_primitives. See __xdr for a complete
list. The format is:
[size, align, order] repeated 6 times for char, short, int,
long, float, and double, except that char align is always 1,
so result(2) is the structure alignment (see struct_align).
[sign_address, exponent_address, exponent_bits,
mantissa_address, mantissa_bits,
mantissa_normalization, exponent_bias] repeated twice for
float and double. See the comment at the top of prmtyp.i
for an explanation of these fields.
the total number of items is thus 3*6+7*2=32.
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SEE ALSO:
|
get_primitives,
createb,
__xdr,
__i86
|
set_vars
|
set_vars, file, names
or set_vars, file, nonrec_names, rec_names
Change the names of the variables in FILE to NAMES. If the
file has record variables, you can use the second form to change
the record variable names. Either of the two lists may be nil
to leave those names unchanged, but if either is not nil, it must
be a 1D array of strings whose length exactly matches the number
of that type of variable actually present in the file.
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
updateb,
has_records,
get_vars
|
sgi64_primitives
|
sgi64_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to 64-bit SGI workstations.
|
show
|
show, f
or show, f, pat
or show, f, 1
prints a summary of the variables contained in binary file F.
If there are too many variables, use the second form to select
only those variables whose first few characters match PAT.
In the third form, continues the previous show command where it
left off -- this may be necessary for files with large numbers of
variables.
The variables are printed in alphabetical order down the columns.
The print function can be used to obtain other information about F.
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
jt,
jc
|
sign
|
sign(x)
returns algebraic sign of it argument, or closest point on the
unit circle for complex x. Guaranteed that x==sign(x)*abs(x).
sign(0)==+1.
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SEE ALSO:
|
abs
|
sin
|
sin(x)
cos(x)
tan(x)
returns the sine, cosine, or tangent of its argument,
which is in radians.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
asin,
acos,
atan
|
sinh
|
sinh(x)
cosh(x)
tanh(x)
returns the hyperbolic sine, cosine, or tangent of its argument.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
sech,
csch,
asinh,
acosh,
atanh
|
sizeof
|
sizeof(object)
returns the size of the object in bytes, or 0 for non-array objects.
sizeof(structure_definition) returns the number of bytes per instance.
sizeof(binary_file) returns the file size in bytes.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
dimsof,
typeof,
structof,
numberof
|
sort
|
sort(x)
or sort(x, which)
returns an array of longs with dimsof(X) containing index values
such that X(sort(X)) is a monotonically increasing array. X can
contain integer, real, or string values. If X has more than one
dimension, WHICH determines the dimension to be sorted. The
default WHICH is 1, corresponding to the first dimension of X.
WHICH can be non-positive to count dimensions from the end of X;
in particular a WHICH of 0 will sort the final dimension of X.
WARNING: The sort function is non-deterministic if some of the
values of X are equal, because the Quick Sort algorithm
involves a random selection of a partition element.
For information on sorting with multiple keys (and on making
sort deterministic), type the following:
#include "msort.i"
help, msort
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SEE ALSO:
|
median,
digitize,
interp,
integ,
histogram
|
span
|
span(start, stop, n)
or span(start, stop, n, which)
returns array of N doubles equally spaced from START to STOP.
The START and STOP arguments may themselves be arrays, as long as
they are conformable. In this case, the result will have one
dimension of length N in addition to dimsof(START, STOP).
By default, the result will be N-by-dimsof(START, STOP), but
if WHICH is specified, the new one of length N will be the
WHICHth. WHICH may be non-positive to position the new
dimension relative to the end of dimsof(START, STOP); in
particular WHICH of 0 produces a result with dimensions
dimsof(START, STOP)-by-N.
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SEE ALSO:
|
spanl,
indgen,
array
|
spanl
|
spanl(start, stop, n)
or spanl(start, stop, n, which)
similar to the span function, but the result array have N points
spaced at equal ratios from START to STOP (that is, equally
spaced logarithmically). See span for discussion of WHICH argument.
START and STOP must have the same algebraic sign for this to make
any sense.
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SEE ALSO:
|
span,
indgen,
array
|
sqrt
|
sqrt(x)
returns the square root of its argument.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
abs
|
strcase
|
strcase(upper, string_array)
or strcase, upper, string_array
returns STRING_ARRAY with all strings converted to upper case
if UPPER is non-zero. If UPPER is zero, result is lower case.
(For characters >=0x80, the case conversion assumes the ISO8859-1
character set.)
Called as a subroutine, strcase converts STRING_ARRAY in place.
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strlen,
strpart,
strglob,
strfind,
strgrep,
strword
|
strchar
|
strchar(string_array)
or strchar(char_array)
converts STRING_ARRAY to an array of characters, or CHAR_ARRAY
to an array of strings. The return value is always a 1D array,
except in the second form if CHAR_ARRAY contains only a single
string, the result will be a scalar string. Each string is
stored in sequence including its trailing '\0' character, with
any string(0) elements treated as if they were "". Going in
the opposite direction, a '\0' before any non-'\0' characters
produces string(0), so that "" can never be an element of
the result, and if the final char (of the leading dimension)
is not '\0', an implicit '\0' is assumed beyond the end of the
input char array. For example,
strchar(["a","b","c"]) --> ['a','\0','b','\0','c','\0']
strchar([['a','\0','b'],['c','\0','\0']]) --> ["a","b","c",string(0)]
The string and pointer data types themselves also convert between
string and char data, avoiding the quirks of strchar.
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strpart,
strword,
strfind
|
streplace
|
streplace(string_array, start_end, to_string)
replaces the part(s) START_END of STRING_ARRAY by TO_STRING.
The leading dimension of START_END must be a multiple of 2,
while any trailing dimensions must be conformable with the
dimensions of STRING_ARRAY. The TO_STRING must be conformable
with STRING_ARRAY if the leading dimension of START_END is 2.
An element of START_END may represent "no match" (for example,
when end 2, then
TO_STRING must have a leading dimension conformable with n
(that is, of length either 1 or n). In this case, streplace
performs multiple replacements within each string. In order
for multiple replacements to be meaningful, the START_END
must be disjoint and sorted, as returned by strfind or
strgrep with a repeat count, or by strword. In other words,
the first dimension of START_END should be non-decreasing,
except where end "Goodbye, world!"
streplace(s,[0,5,7,7], ["Goodbye","cruel "])
--> "Goodbye, cruel world!"
streplace(s,[0,5,7,7,12,13], ["Goodbye","cruel ","?"])
--> "Goodbye, cruel world?"
streplace(s,[0,5,0,-1,12,13], ["Goodbye","cruel ","?"])
--> "Goodbye, world?"
streplace([s,s],[0,5], ["Goodbye", "Good bye"])
--> ["Goodbye, world!", "Good bye, world!"]
streplace([s,s],[0,5,7,7], [["Goodbye","cruel "], ["Good bye",""]])
--> ["Goodbye, cruel world!", "Good bye, world!"]
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strfind,
strgrep,
strword,
strpart
|
strfind
|
strfind(pat, string_array)
or strfind(pat, string_array, off)
finds pattern PAT in STRING_ARRAY. Optional OFF is an integer
array conformable with STRING_ARRAY or 0-origin offset(s) within
the string(s) at which to begin the search(es). The return value
is a [start,end] offset pair specifying the beginning and end
of the first match, or [0,-1] if none, with trailing dimensions
the same as the dimensions of STRING_ARRAY. This return value
is suitable as an input to the strpart or streplace functions.
The strfind function is the simpler string pattern matcher:
strfind - just finds a literal pattern (possibly case insensitive)
strgrep - matches a pattern containing complex regular expressions
Additionally, the strglob function does filename wildcard matching.
Keywords:
n= (default 1) returns list of first n matches, so leading
dimension of result will be 2*n
case= (default 1) zero for case-insensitive search
back= (default 0) non-zero for backwards search
If back!=0 and n>1, the last match is listed as the
last start-end pair, so the output pairs still appear
in increasing order, and the first few may be 0,-1
to indicate no match.
Examples:
s = ["one two three", "four five six"]
strfind("o",s) --> [[0,1], [1,2]]
strfind(" t",s) --> [[3,5], [13,-1]]
strfind(" t",s,n=2) --> [[3,5,7,9], [13,-1,13,-1]]
strfind("e",s,n=2,back=1) --> [[11,12,12,13], [0,-1,8,9]]
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strglob,
strgrep,
strword,
strpart,
streplace
|
strglob
|
strglob(pat, string_array)
or strglob(pat, string_array, off)
test if pattern PAT matches STRING_ARRAY. Optional OFF is an integer
array conformable with STRING_ARRAY or 0-origin offset(s) within
the string(s) at which to begin the search(es). The return value
is an int with the same dimensions as STRING_ARRAY, 1 for a match,
and 0 for no match.
PAT can contain UNIX shell wildcard or "globbing" characters:
matches any number of characters
? matches any single character
[abcd] matches any single character in the list, which may
contain ranges such as [a-z0-9A-Z]
\c matches the character c (useful for c= a special character)
(note that this is "\\c" in a yorick string)
The strglob function is mostly intended for matching lists of
file names. Note, in particular, that unlike strfind or strgrep,
the entire string must match PAT.
Keywords:
case= (default 1) zero for case-insensitive search
path= (default 0) 1 bit set means / must be matched by /
2 bit set means leading . must be matched by .
esc= (default 1) zero means \ is not treated as an escape
The underlying compiled routine is based on the BSD fnmatch
function, contributed by Guido van Rossum.
Examples:
return all files in current directory with .pdb extension:
d=lsdir("."); d(where(strglob("*.pdb", d)));
return all subdirectories of the form "hackNN", case insensitive:
d=lsdir(".",1);
d(where(strglob("hack[0-9][0-9]", d, case=0)));
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strfind,
strgrep,
strword,
strpart,
streplace
|
strgrep
|
strgrep(pat, string_array)
or strgrep(pat, string_array, off)
finds pattern PAT in STRING_ARRAY. Optional OFF is an integer
array conformable with STRING_ARRAY or 0-origin offset(s) within
the string(s) at which to begin the search(es). The return value
is a [start,end] offset pair specifying the beginning and end
of the first match, or [0,-1] if none, with trailing dimensions
the same as the dimensions of STRING_ARRAY. This return value
is suitable as an input to the strpart or streplace functions.
The underlying compiled routine is based on the regexp package
written by Henry Spencer (copyright University of Toronto 1986),
slightly modified for yorick.
PAT is a regular expression, simliar to the UNIX grep utility.
Every "regular expression" syntax is slightly different; here is
the syntax supported by strgrep:
The following characters in PAT have special meanings:
'[' followed by any sequence of characters followed by ']' is a
"range", which matches any single one of those characters
'^' first means to match any character NOT one in the sequence
'-' in such a sequence indicates a range of characters
(e.g.- "[A-Za-z0-9_]" matches any alphanumeric character
or underscore, while "[^A-Za-z0-9_]" matches anything else)
to include ']' in the sequence, place it first,
to include '-' in the sequence, place it first or last
(or first after a leading '^' in either case)
Note that the following special characters lose their special
meanings inside a range.
'.' matches any single character
'^' matches the beginning of the string (but no characters)
'$' matches the end of the string (but no characters)
(that is, ^ and $ serve to anchor a search so that it will
only find a match at the beginning or end of the string)
'\' (that is, a single backslash, which can only be entered
into a yorick string by a double backslash "\\")
followed by any single character eliminates any special
meaning for that character, for example "\\." matches
period, rather than any single character (its special meaning)
'(' followed by a regular expression followed by ')' matches the
regular expression, creating a sub-pattern, which is a type
of atom (see below)
'|' means "or"; it separates branches in a regular expression
'*' after an atom matches 0 or more matches of the atom
'+' after an atom matches 1 or more matches of the atom
'?' after an atom matches 0 or 1 matches of the atom
The definitions of "atom", "branch", and "regular expression" are:
A "regular expression" (which is what PAT is) consists of zero
or more "branches" separated by '|'; it matches anything that
matches one of the branches.
A "branch" consists of zero or more "pieces", concatenated; it
matches a match for the first followed by a match for the second,
etc.
A "piece" is an "atom", optionally followed by '*', '+', or '?';
it matches the atom, or zero or more repetitions of the atom, as
specified by the optional suffix.
Finally, an "atom" is an ordinary single character, or a
'\'-escaped single character (matching that character), or
one of the special characters '.', '^', or '$', or a
[]-delimited range (matching any single character in the range),
or a sub-pattern enclosed in () (matching the sub-pattern).
A maximum of nine sub-patterns is allowed in PAT; these are
numbered 1 through 9, in order of their opening '(' in PAT.
This recursive definition of regular expressions often leads to
ambiguities, both subtle and glaring. Here is Henry Spencer's
synopsis of how his routines behave:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
If a regular expression could match two different parts of the
input string, it will match the one which begins earliest. If both
begin in the same place but match different lengths, or match the
same length in different ways, life gets messier, as follows.
In general, the possibilities in a list of branches are considered
in left-to-right order, the possibilities for `*', `+', and `?' are
considered longest-first, nested constructs are considered from the
outermost in, and concatenated constructs are considered leftmost-
first. The match that will be chosen is the one that uses the
earliest possibility in the first choice that has to be made. If
there is more than one choice, the next will be made in the same
manner (earliest possibility) subject to the decision on the first
choice. And so forth.
For example, `(ab|a)b*c' could match `abc' in one of two ways. The
first choice is between `ab' and `a'; since `ab' is earlier, and
does lead to a successful overall match, it is chosen. Since the
`b' is already spoken for, the `b*' must match its last possibility
-the empty string- since it must respect the earlier choice.
In the particular case where no `|'s are present and there is only
one `*', `+', or `?', the net effect is that the longest possible
match will be chosen. So `ab*', presented with `xabbbby', will
match `abbbb'. Note that if `ab*' is tried against `xabyabbbz', it
will match `ab' just after `x', due to the begins-earliest rule.
(In effect, the decision on where to start the match is the first
choice to be made, hence subsequent choices must respect it even if
this leads them to less-preferred alternatives.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
When PAT contains parenthesized sub-patterns, strgrep returns
the [start,end] of the entire match by default, but you can
also get the [start,end] of any or all of the sub-patterns
using the sub= keyword (see below).
If PAT does not contain any regular expression constructs, you
should use the strfind function instead of strgrep. The strglob
function, if appropriate, will also be faster than strgrep.
Keywords:
n= (default 1) returns list of first n matches, so leading
dimension of result will be 2*n
sub=[n1,n2,...] is a list of the sub-pattern [start,end] pairs
to be returned. Thus 0 is the whole PAT, 1 is the first
parenthesized sub-pattern, and so on. The leading
dimension of the result will be 2*numberof(sub)*n. The
sequence n1,n2,... must strictly increase: n1 [0,13]
strgrep("(Hello|Goodbye), *([a-z]*|[A-Z]*)!", s, sub=[1,2])
--> [0,5,7,12]
strgrep("(Hello|Goodbye), *([a-z]*|[A-Z]*)!", s, sub=[0,2])
--> [0,13,7,12]
strgrep("(Hello|Goodbye), *(([A-Z]*)|([a-z]*))!", s, sub=[0,2,3,4])
--> [0,13,7,12,13,-1,7,12]
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strglob,
strfind,
strword,
strpart,
streplace
|
string
|
string
The yorick string datatype is a character string, e.g.- "Hello, world!".
Internally, strings are stored as 0-terminated sequences of characters,
which are 8-bit bytes, the same as the char datatype..
Like numeric datatypes, string behaves as a function to convert objects
to the string datatype. There are only two interesting conversions:
string(0) is the nil string, like a 0 pointer
This is the only string which is "false" in an if test.
string(pc) where pc is an array of type pointer where each pointer
is either 0 or points to an array of type char, copies the chars
into an array of strings, adding a trailing '\0' if necessary
pointer(sa) where sa is an array of stringa is the inverse
conversion, copying each string to an array of char (including the
terminal '\0') and returning an array of pointers to them
The strchar() function may be a more convenient way to convert from
string to char and back.
Yorick provides the following means of manipulating string variables:
s+t when s and t are strings, + means concatentation
(this is not perfect nomenclature, since t+s != s+t)
s(,sum,..) the sum index range concatentates along a dimension of
an array of strings
sum(s) concatenates all the strings in an array (in storage order)
strlen(s) returns length(s) of string(s) s
strcase(upper, s) converts s to upper or lower case
strchar(s_or_c) converts between string and char arrays
(quick and dirty alternative to string<->pointer)
strpart(s, m:n)
strpart(s, sel) extracts substrings (sel is a [start,end] list)
string search functions:
strglob(pat, s) shell-like wildcard pattern match, returns 0 or 1
strword(s, delim) parses s into word(s), returns a sel
strfind(pat, s) simple pattern match, returns a sel
strgrep(pat, s) regular expression pattern match, returns a sel
streplace(s, sel, t) replaces sel in s by t
strtrim trims leading and/or trailing blanks (based on strword)
strmatch is a wrapper for strfind that simply returns whether there
was a match or not rather than its exact offset
strtok is a variant of strword that calls strpart in order to
return the substrings rather than an sel index list
The strword, strfind, and strgrep functions produce a sel, that is,
a list of [start,end] offsets into an array of strings.
These sel indicate portions of a string to be operated on for the
strpart and streplace functions.
The sread, swrite, and print functions operate on or produce strings.
The rdline, rdfile, read, and write functions perform I/O on strings
to text files.
|
strmatch
|
strmatch(string_array, pattern)
or strmatch(string_array, pattern, case_fold)
or strmatch(string_array, pattern, case_fold)
returns an int array with dimsof(STRING_ARRAY) with 0 where
PATTERN was not found in STRING_ARRAY and 1 where it was found.
If CASE_FOLD is specified and non-0, the pattern match is
insensitive to case, that is, an upper case letter will match
the same lower case letter and vice-versa.
(Consider using strfind directly.)
|
SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strfind,
strpart,
strlen
|
strpart
|
strpart(string_array, m:n)
or strpart(string_array, start_end)
or strpart, string_array, start_end
returns another string array with the same dimensions as
STRING_ARRAY which consists of characters M through N of
the original strings. M and N are 1-origin indices; if
M is omitted, the default is 1; if N is omitted, the default
is the end of the string. If M or N is non-positive, it is
interpreted as an index relative to the end of the string,
with 0 being the last character, -1 next to last, etc.
Finally, the returned string will be shorter than N-M+1
characters if the original doesn't have an Mth or Nth
character, with "" (note that this is otherwise impossible)
if neither an Mth nor an Nth character exists. A 0
is returned for any string which was 0 on input.
In the second form, START_END is an array of [start,end] indices.
A single pair [start,end] is equivalent to the range start+1:end,
that is, start is the index of the character immediately before
the substring (which is to say start is the number of characters
skipped at the beginning of the string). If endlength, or if the original string
is string(0), strpart returns string(0); otherwise, if end==start,
strpart returns "".
However, the START_END array may have any additional dimensions
(beyond the leading dimension of length 2) which are conformable
with the dimensions of the STRING_ARRAY. The result will be a
string array with dimensions dimsof(STRING_ARRAY,START_END(1,..)).
Furthermore, the leading dimension of START_END may have any
even length, say 2*n, in which case the leading dimension of
the result will be n. For example,
strpart(a, [s1,e1,s2,e2,s3,e3,s4,e4])
is equivalent to (or shorthand for)
strpart(a(-,..), [[s1,e1],[s2,e2],[s3,e3],[s4,e4]])(1,..)
In the third form, called a subroutine, strpart operates on
STRING_ARRAY in place. In this case START_END must have
leading dimension of length 2, although it may have trailing
dimensions as usual.
Examples:
strpart("Hello, world!", 4:6) --> "lo,"
strpart("Hello, world!", [3,6]) --> "lo,"
-it may help to think of [start,end] as the 0-origin offset
of a "cursor" between the characters of the string
strpart("Hello, world!", [3,3]) --> ""
strpart("Hello, world!", [3,2]) --> string(0)
strpart("Hello, world!", [3,20]) --> string(0)
strpart("Hello, world!", [3,6,7,9]) --> ["lo,","wo"]
strpart(["one","two"], [[1,2],[0,1]]) --> ["n","t"]
strpart(["one","two"], [1,2,0,1]) --> [["n","o"],["w","t"]]
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SEE ALSO:
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string,
strcase,
strlen,
strfind,
strword
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strtok
|
strtok(string_array, delim)
or strtok(string_array)
or strtok(string_array, delim, n)
strips the first token off of each string in STRING_ARRAY.
A token is delimited by any of the characters in the string
DELIM. If DELIM is blank, nil, or not given, the
default DELIM is " \t\n" (blanks, tabs, or newlines).
The result is a string array ts with dimensions
2-by-dimsof(STRING_ARRAY); ts(1,) is the first token, and
ts(2,) is the remainder of the string (the character which
terminated the first token will be in neither of these parts).
The ts(2,) part will be 0 (i.e.- the null string) if no more
characters remain after ts(1,); the ts(1,) part will be 0 if
no token was present. A STRING_ARRAY element may be 0, in
which case (0, 0) is returned for that element.
With yorick-1.6, strtok has been extended to accept multiple
delimiter sets DELIM for successive words, and a repeat count
N for the final DELIM set. The operation is the same as for
strword, except that the N<=0 special cases are illegal, and
if DELIM consists of only a single set, N=2 is the default
rather than N=1. The dimensions of the return value are thus
min(2,numberof(DELIM)+N-1)-by-dimsof(STRING_ARRAY).
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SEE ALSO:
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string,
strword,
strmatch,
strpart,
strlen
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strtrim
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strtrim(string_array)
or strtrim(string_array, which)
or strtrim, string_array, which
returns STRING without leading and/or trailing blanks. WHICH=1
means to trim leading blanks only, WHICH=2 trims trailing blanks
only, while WHICH=3 (the default) trims both leading and trailing
blanks. Called as a subroutine, strtrim performs this operation
in place.
The blank= keyword, if present, is a list of characters to be
considered "blanks". Use blank=[lead_delim,trail_delim] to get
different leading and trailing "blanks" definitions. By default,
blank=" \t\n". (See strword for more about delim syntax.)
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SEE ALSO:
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string,
strpart,
strword
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struct_align
|
struct_align, file, alignment
in binary file FILE, align new struct members which are themselves
struct instances to begin at a byte address which is a multiple of
ALIGNMENT. (This affects members declared explicitly by add_member,
as well as implicitly by save or add_variable.) If ALIGNMENT is <=0,
returns to the default for this machine. The struct alignment is in
addition to the alignment implied by the most restrictively aligned
member of the struct. Most machines want ALIGNMENT of 1.
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SEE ALSO:
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add_member
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structof
|
structof(object)
returns the data type of OBJECT, or nil for non-array OBJECTs.
Use typeof(object) to get the ASCII name of a the data type.
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SEE ALSO:
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typeof,
dimsof,
numberof,
sizeof,
nameof
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strword
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strword(string_array)
or strword(string_array, delim)
or strword(string_array, delim, n)
or strword(string_array, off, delim, n)
scans to the first character in STRING_ARRAY which is not in
the DELIM list. DELIM defaults to " \t\n", that is, whitespace.
The return value is a [start,end] offset pair, with trailing
dimensions matching the dimensions of the given STRING_ARRAY.
Note that this return value is suitable for use in the strpart
or streplace functions.
If the first character of DELIM is "^", the sense is reversed;
strword scans to the first character in DELIM. (Except that
if DELIM is the single character "^", it has its usual meaning.)
Also, a "-" which is not the first (or second after "^") or last
character of DELIM indicates a range of characters. Finally,
if DELIM is "" or string(0), the scan stops immediately, since
the first character (no matter what it is) is not in DELIM.
Furthermore, DELIM can be a list of delimiter sets, where each
element of the list delimits a new word, so the return value will
be [start1,end1, ..., startN,endN], where N=numberof(DELIM),
and start1 is the offset of the first character not in DELIM(1),
characters with offset between end1 and start2 are in DELIM(2),
characters with offset between end2 and start3 are in DELIM(3),
and so on. If endM is the length of the string for some M [2,15]
strword("Hello, world!") --> [0,13]
strword("Hello, world!", , 2) --> [0,6,7,13]
strword("Hello, world!", , -2) --> [0,6]
strword("Hello, world!", ".!, \t\n", -2) --> [0,5]
strword("Hello, world!", [string(0), ".!, \t\n"], 0) --> [0,12]
strword("Hello, world!", "A-Za-z", 2) --> [5,7,12,13]
strword("Hello, world!", "^A-Za-z", 2) --> [0,5,7,13]
strword("Hello, world!", "^A-Za-z", 3) --> [0,5,7,12,13,-1]
strword(" Hello, world!", [" \t\n",".!, \t\n"]) --> [2,7,9,15]
strword(" Hello, world!", [" \t\n",".!, \t\n"], 2) --> [2,7,9,14,15,-1]
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SEE ALSO:
|
string,
strlen,
strpart,
strfind,
strtok,
strtrim
|
sum
|
sum(x)
returns the scalar sum of all elements of its array argument.
If X is a string, concatenates all elements.
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SEE ALSO:
|
avg,
min,
max
|
sun3_primitives
|
sun3_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to Sun-2 or Sun-3.
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sun_primitives
|
sun_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to Sun, HP, IBM, etc.
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symbol_def
|
symbol_def(func_name)(arglist)
or symbol_def(var_name)
invokes the function FUNC_NAME with the specified ARGLIST,
returning the return value. ARGLIST may be zero or more arguments.
In fact, symbol_def("fname")(arg1, arg2, arg3) is equivalent to
fname(arg1, arg2, arg3), so that "fname" can be the name of any
variable for which the latter syntax is meaningful -- interpreted
function, built-in function, or array.
Without an argument list, symbol_def("varname") is equivalent to
varname, which allows you to get the value of a variable whose name
you must compute.
DO NOT OVERUSE THIS FUNCTION. It works around a specific deficiency
of the Yorick language -- the lack of pointers to functions -- and
should be used for such purposes as hook lists (see openb).
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SEE ALSO:
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symbol_set
|
symbol_set
|
symbol_set, var_name, value
is equivalent to the redefinition
varname= value
except that var_name="varname" is a string which must be computed.
DO NOT OVERUSE THIS FUNCTION. It works around a specific deficiency
of the Yorick language -- the lack of pointers to functions, streams,
bookmarks, and other special non-array data types.
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SEE ALSO:
|
symbol_def
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system
|
system, "shell command line"
Passes the command line string to a shell for execution.
If the string is constant, you may use the special syntax:
$shell command line
(A long command line may be continued by ending the line with \
as usual.) The system function syntax allows Yorick to compute
parts of the command line string, while the simple $ escape
syntax does not. In either case, the only way to get output
back from such a command is to redirect it to a file, then
read the file. Note that Yorick does not regain control
until the subordinate shell finishes. (Yorick will get control
back if the command line backgrounds the job.)
WARNING: If Yorick has grown to a large size, this may crash
your operating system, since the underlying POSIX fork function
first copies all of the running Yorick process before the exec
function can start the shell. See Y_SITE/sysafe.i for a fix.
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SEE ALSO:
|
popen
|
timer
|
timer, elapsed
or timer, elapsed, split
updates the ELAPSED and optionally SPLIT timing arrays. These
arrays must each be of type array(double,3); the layout is
[cpu, system, wall], with all three times measured in seconds.
ELAPSED is updated to the total times elapsed since this copy
of Yorick started. SPLIT is incremented by the difference between
the new values of ELAPSED and the values of ELAPSED on entry.
This feature allows for primitive code profiling by keeping
separate accounting of time usage in several categories, e.g.--
elapsed= total= cat1= cat2= cat3= array(double, 3);
timer, elapsed0;
elasped= elapsed0;
... category 1 code ...
timer, elapsed, cat1;
... category 2 code ...
timer, elapsed, cat2;
... category 3 code ...
timer, elapsed, cat3;
... more category 2 code ...
timer, elapsed, cat2;
timer, elapsed0, total;
The wall time is not absolutely reliable, owning to possible
rollover at midnight.
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SEE ALSO:
|
timestamp,
timer_print
|
timer_print
|
timer_print, label1, split1, label2, split2, ...
or timer_print
or timer_print, label_total
prints out a timing summary for splits accumulated by timer.
timer_print, "category 1", cat1, "category 2", cat2,
"category 3", cat3, "total", total;
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SEE ALSO:
|
timer
|
timestamp
|
timestamp()
returns string of the form "Sun Jan 3 15:14:13 1988" -- always
has 24 characters.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
timer
|
transpose
|
transpose(x)
or transpose(x, permutation1, permutation2, ...)
transpose the first and last dimensions of array X. In the second
form, each PERMUTATION specifies a simple permutation of the
dimensions of X. These permutations are compounded left to right
to determine the final permutation to be applied to the dimensions
of X. Each PERMUTATION is either an integer or a 1D array of
integers. A 1D array specifies a cyclic permutation of the
dimensions as follows: [3, 5, 2] moves the 3rd dimension to the
5th dimension, the 5th dimension to the 2nd dimension, and the 2nd
dimension to the 3rd dimension. Non-positive numbers count from the
end of the dimension list of X, so that 0 is the final dimension,
-1 in the next to last, etc. A scalar PERMUTATION is a shorthand
for a cyclic permutation of all of the dimensions of X. The value
of the scalar is the dimension to which the 1st dimension will move.
Examples: Let x have dimsof(x) equal [6, 1,2,3,4,5,6] in order
to be able to easily identify a dimension by its length. Then:
dimsof(x) == [6, 1,2,3,4,5,6]
dimsof(transpose(x)) == [6, 6,2,3,4,5,1]
dimsof(transpose(x,[1,2])) == [6, 2,1,3,4,5,6]
dimsof(transpose(x,[1,0])) == [6, 6,2,3,4,5,1]
dimsof(transpose(x,2)) == [6, 6,1,2,3,4,5]
dimsof(transpose(x,0)) == [6, 2,3,4,5,6,1]
dimsof(transpose(x,3)) == [6, 5,6,1,2,3,4]
dimsof(transpose(x,[4,6,3],[2,5])) == [6, 1,5,6,3,2,4]
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typeof
|
typeof(object)
returns a string describing the type of object. For the basic
data types, these are "char", "short", "int", "long", "float",
"double", "complex", "string", "pointer", "struct_instance",
"void", "range", "struct_definition", "function", "builtin",
"stream" (for a binary stream), and "text_stream".
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SEE ALSO:
|
structof,
dimsof,
sizeof,
numberof,
nameof
|
uncen
|
uncen(ptcen)
or uncen(ptcen, ireg)
returns zone centered version of the 2-D zone centered array PTCEN.
The result is (imax-1)-by-(jmax-1) if PTCEN is imax-by-jmax.
If the region number array IREG is specified, zones with region
number 0 are not included in the point centering operation.
Note that IREG should have dimensions imax-by-jmax, like
the input PTCEN array; the first row and column of IREG are ignored.
Without IREG, uncen(ptcen) is equivalent to ptcen(uncp,uncp).
Do not use uncen to zone center data which is naturally point
centered -- use the zncen function for that purpose. The uncen
function is the (nearly) exact inverse of the ptcen function,
so that uncen(ptcen(zncen, ireg), ireg) will return the original
zncen array. The uncen reconstruction is as exact as possible,
given the finite precision of floating point operations.
|
SEE ALSO:
|
ptcen,
zncen
|
updateb
|
file= updateb(filename)
or file= updateb(filename, primitives)
open a binary date file FILENAME for update (mode "r+b").
The optional PRIMITIVES argument is as for the createb function.
If the file exists, it is opened as if by openb(filename),
otherwise a new PDB file is created as if by createb(filename).
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SEE ALSO:
|
openb,
createb,
cd,
save,
restore,
get_vars,
get_addrs,
close102,
close102_default,
open102,
at_pdb_open,
at_pdb_close
|
use_origins
|
dummy= use_origins(dont_force)
Yorick array dimensions have an origin as well as a length.
By default, this origin is 1 (like FORTRAN arrays, unlike C
arrays). However, the array function and the pseudo-index (-)
can be used to produce arrays with other origins.
Initially, the origin of an array index is ignored by Yorick; the
first element of any array has index 1. You can change this
default behavior by calling use_origins with non-zero DONT_FORCE,
and restore the default behavior by calling use_origins(0).
When the returned object DUMMY is destroyed, either by return from
the function in which it is a local variable, or by explicit
redefintion of the last reference to it, the treatment of array
index origins reverts to the behavior prior to the call to
use_origins. Thus, you can call use_origins at the top of a
function and not worry about restoring the external behavior
before every possible return (including errors).
*** DEPRECATED ***
Do not use index origins. Your brain will explode sooner or later.
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SEE ALSO:
|
array,
dimsof,
orgsof
|
vax_primitives
|
vax_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to VAXen, H-double, only.
|
vaxg_primitives
|
vaxg_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be native to VAXen, G-double, only.
|
volume
|
volume(r, z)
returns the zonal volumes of the 2-D cylindrical mesh (R, Z).
If R and Z are imax-by-jmax, the result is (imax-1)-by-(jmax-1).
The volume is positive when, say, Z increases with i and R increases
with j. For example, volume([[0,0],[1,1]],[[0,1],[0,1]]) is +pi.
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SEE ALSO:
|
area
|
where
|
where(x)
returns the vector of longs which is the index list of non-zero
values in the array x. Thus, where([[0,1,3],[2,0,4]]) would
return [2,3,4,6]. If noneof(x), where(x) is a special range
function which will return a nil value if used to index an array;
hence, if noneof(x), then x(where(x)) is nil.
If x is a non-zero scalar, then where(x) returns a scalar value.
The rather recondite behavior for scalars and noneof(x) provides
maximum performance when the merge function to be used with the
where function.
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SEE ALSO:
|
where2,
merge,
merge2,
allof,
anyof,
noneof,
nallof,
sort
|
where2
|
where2(x)
like where(x), but the returned list is decomposed into indices
according to the dimensions of x. The returned list is always
2 dimensional, with the second dimension the same as the dimension
of where(x). The first dimension has length corresponding to the
number of dimensions of x. Thus, where2([[0,1,3],[2,0,4]]) would
return [[2,1],[3,1],[1,2],[3,2]].
If noneof(x), where2 returns [] (i.e.- nil).
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SEE ALSO:
|
where,
merge,
merge2,
allof,
anyof,
noneof,
nallof,
sort
|
write
|
n= write(f, format=fstring, linesize=l, obj1, obj2, ...)
n= write(format=fstring, linesize=l, obj1, obj2, ...)
or strings= swrite(format=fstring, linesize=l, obj1, obj2, ...)
writes text to I/O stream F (1st form), or to the terminal (2nd
form), or to the STRINGS string array (3rd form), representing
arrays OBJ1, OBJ2, ..., according to the optional FSTRING. The
optional linesize L defaults to 80 characters, and helps restrict
line lengths when FSTRING is not given, or does not contain
newline directives. The write function always appends to the
end of a text file; the position for a sequence of reads is
not affected by intervening writes.
There must be one conversion specifier (see below) in FSTRING for
each OBJ to be written; the type of the conversion specifier must
generally match the type of the OBJ. That is, an integer OBJ
requires an integer specifier (d, i, o, u, x, or c) in FSTRING,
a real OBJ requires a real specifier (e, f, or g), a string OBJ
requires the string specifier (s), and a pointer OBJ requires a
the pointer specifier (p). An OBJ may not be complex, a structure
instance, or any non-array Yorick object. If FSTRING is not
supplied, or if it has fewer conversion specifiers than the
number of OBJ arguments, then Yorick supplies default specifiers
(" %8ld" for integers, " %14.6lg" for reals, " %s" for strings, and
" %8p" for pointers). If FSTRING contains more specifiers than
there are OBJ arguments, the part of FSTRING beginning with the
first specifier with no OBJ is ignored.
The OBJ may be scalar or arrays, but the dimensions of the OBJ
must be conformable. If the OBJ are arrays, Yorick behaves as
if he write were called in a loop dimsof(OBJ1, OBJ2, ...) times,
writing one array element of each of the OBJ according to FSTRING
on each pass through the loop. The swrite function returns a
string array with dimensions dimsof(OBJ1, OBJ2, ...). The write
function inserts a newline between passes through the array if
the line produced by the previous pass did not end with a
newline, and if the total number of characters output since the
previous inserted newline, plus the number of characters about
to be written on the current pass, would exceed L characters
(L defaults to 80). The write function returns the total
number of characters output.
The FSTRING is composed of a series of "directives" which are
(1) characters other than % -- copied directly to output
(2) conversion specifiers beginning with % and ending with a
character specifying the type of conversion -- specify
how to convert an OBJ into characters for output
The conversion specifier is of the form %FW.PSC, where:
F is zero or more optional flags:
- left justify in field width
+ signed conversion will begin with either + or -
(space) signed conversion will begin with either space or -
# alternate form (see description of each type below)
0 pad field width with leading 0s instead of leading spaces
W is either a decimal integer specifying the minimum field width
(padded as specified by flags), or not present to use the
minimum number of characters required.
.P is either a decimal integer specifying the precision of the
result, or not present to get the default. For integers, this
is the number of digits to be printed (possibly forcing leading
zeroes), and defaults to 1. For reals, this is the number of
digits after the decimal point, and defaults to 6. For strings,
this is the maximum number of characters to print, and defaults
to infinity.
S is either one of the characters 'h', 'l', or 'L', or not
present. Yorick allows this for compatibility with the C
library functions, but ignores it.
C is a character specifying the type of conversion:
d, i - decimal integer
o - octal integer (# forces leading 0)
u - unsigned decimal integer (same as d for Yorick)
x, X - hex integer (# forces leading 0x)
f - floating point real in fixed point notation
(# forces decimal)
e, E - floating point real in scientific notation
g, G - floating point real in fixed or scientific notation
depending on the value converted (# forces decimal)
s - string of ASCII characters
c - integer printed as corresponding ASCII character
p - pointer
% - the ordinary % character; complete conversion
specification must be "%%"
The write function is modeled on the ANSI standard C library
fprintf and sprintf functions, but differs in several respects:
(1) Yorick's write cannot handle the %n conversion specifier
in FSTRING.
(2) Yorick's write may insert additional newlines if the OBJ
are arrays, to avoid extremely long output lines.
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SEE ALSO:
|
print,
exit,
error,
read,
rdline,
open,
close,
save,
restore
|
xdr_primitives
|
xdr_primitives, file
sets FILE primitive data types to be XDR (external data representation).
|
yorick_stats
|
yorick_stats
returns an array of longs describing Yorick memory usage.
For debugging. See ydata.c source code.
|
zncen
|
zncen(ptcen)
or zncen(ptcen, ireg)
returns zone centered version of the 2-D point centered array PTCEN.
The result is (imax-1)-by-(jmax-1) if PTCEN is imax-by-jmax.
If the region number array IREG is specified, zones with region
number 0 are not included in the point centering operation.
Note that IREG should have dimensions imax-by-jmax, like
the input PTCEN array; the first row and column of IREG are ignored.
Without IREG, zncen(ptcen) is equivalent to ptcen(zcen,zcen).
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SEE ALSO:
|
ptcen,
uncen
|
|