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Exporting data


tex2html_wrap_inline33790 tex2html_wrap_inline33790 Syntax

  1. BD>export : L (d) D1, D2, ... tex2html_wrap_inline33712

  2. BD>export : (d) D1, D2, ... tex2html_wrap_inline33712

  3. BD>export : L (d) tex2html_wrap_inline33712

  4. BD>export : (d) tex2html_wrap_inline33712

where d is a switch; tex2html_wrap_inline39078 are the names of data-carriers or bases; and L is the name of a file label.

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The first form of the command is used to export data so that they follow a label. Typically the label will be a string of alphabetic characters preceded by the symbol `@' (this symbol is used as the prefix recognised by [B/D] as implying that the remainder of a string is a label name). The label is output as one line of text. The second form of the command is identical to the first except that no label is defined, and no label will be exported.

On successive lines the data are exported, one line per case. For example, if the names of two data-carriers D1 and D2 are given, and if each of these has ten observations defined ( tex2html_wrap_inline39090 and tex2html_wrap_inline39092 ) then the output will consist of ten rows of two columns, with the first column corresponding to D1 and so forth.

Where D1, etc., are the names of bases, all the elements possessing data in the named base are marked for their data to be output. The latter two forms of the command do not specify the particular names of data to be exported, and are used as shorthand to mean that all data-carriers should be exported. See §6.2 for details of specifying collections for the definition part.

The data-carriers are output according to the ordering convention of data name, and their ordering in the EXPORT:  command line is irrelevant.


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David Wooff
Wed Oct 21 15:14:31 BST 1998