PRMREAD

Description

Parameters

Parameter descriptions

PARMNAME

Specifies the name of the parameter in the parameter file to which the new value will be assigned.

TFILE

Specifies the name of the input text file from which the parameter value is read.

Details

PRMREAD was written to temporarily fulfill requirements in bidding a project with EDS. This requirement was the need to allow the EDS GDS GIS system to transfer values to an algorithm.

PRMREAD is used to read values into a parameter (PARMNAME) in the parameter file. For numeric parameters, this is 1 to 16 decoded real values; for string parameters, this is 1 to 64 characters. The values to be assigned are passed in a one-line text file (TFILE). Only one parameter can be read at a time.

If the parameter (PARMNAME) is numeric, the line of text is decoded into 0 to 16 values. Values can be integer or real, and must be separated by blanks (no commas). Because PRMREAD does not check for errors, if the text file does not contain valid numbers, no error will be reported and the contents of the parameter will be unpredictable.

If the parameter (PARMNAME) is string, the first 0 to 64 characters, or the characters up to the first new line (<cr>) in the text file will be assigned to the parameter.

This functionality can also be implemented by using the TEXREAD or TEXGET algorithms and data type conversion functions using the programming environment to decode values.

Example

56  89.6   0

EASI>tfile='values.txt'
EASI>parmname='NUM1'

EASI>run PRMREAD