The name of each variable summary file (list file) output by
checkvar is of the form variable.lst for numeric variables
and variable.cst for character variables. The data in
*.lst, and *.cst files can be loaded into histogram plot
programs for graphical representation. (You must be familiar enough
with your program of choice to manipulate the data as necessary in
order to achieve the desired result.) In Unix, there is no need to
abbreviate the base file name.
NOTE: If you use the -v option, the order of variables in var_file has
no effect on the numbering of base file names of the variable summary files.
The two example variable summary files, latitude.lst and
longitude.lst, are shown next.
latitude.lst
-83.224 1 -69.274 1 -65.865 1 -63.212 1 -63.003 1 -47.304 1 -34.578 1 -28.287 1 -12.967 1 -0.929 1 11.624 1 12.588 1 27.331 1 29.918 1 35.086 1 35.130 1 38.818 1 54.118 1 77.652 1 77.883 1 |
longitude.lst
-176.162 1 -155.234 1 -153.544 1 -136.941 1 -113.661 1 -79.178 1 -77.506 1 -55.442 1 -21.644 1 0.777 1 30.172 1 35.591 1 36.356 1 38.875 1 55.319 1 62.152 1 91.411 1 134.124 1 144.804 1 149.408 1 |
checkvar and often do not
correspond to data values in the input file, even if the
checkvar and data file precisions are the same.
The first data bin in latitude.lst contains data points in the
range -83.224 (inclusive) to -69.274 (exclusive); neither boundary
number exists in latlon.dat. The first bin has one data point,
-83.223548. The fourth data bin contains latitude values from -63.212
(inclusive) to -63.003 (exclusive), again with neither boundary value
occurring in the data file. The data point in the fourth bin is
-63.211962.