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mpl2col

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• name:
  mpl2col
• synopsis:

  mpl2col mpl-filenamelist -output= column-file [-erase] [-format=" format-string"] [-title=" string"] [-topline=" string"]

• description:
  mpl2col provides a means of assembling a column-format self-describing data file from one or more mpl-format files. Both columns of the mpl files are added to the table, provided each has a name that is not already present in the file and that the number of data points in the file is the same as the number of rows in the table.
• files:
  mpl-filenamelist is a list of one or more mpl-format files to be assembled into or added to a column-format file.
• options:

  output

  
  Specifies the name of the column-format file to add data to; if column-file does not exist, it is created.

  erase

  
  Requests that if column-file already exists, the data in it be erased before putting the files from mpl-filenamelist into the table.

  format

  
  Specifies a C-style format-string that will be used to print all new columns.

  title, topline

  
  Specify label strings for the title and topline entries of the column-format file.

• see also:

  
  column.