FORMAT Subcommand (PLANCARDS command)

FORMAT specifies how the profiles should be displayed. The choices are listing format (LIST keyword) and single-profile format (CARD keyword). Listing format displays the profiles in the form of a single list. For single-profile format, output is displayed so that each profile is presented separately.

  • The keyword FORMAT is followed by LIST, CARD, or BOTH. (ALL is an alias for BOTH.)
  • The default format is LIST.
  • With LIST format, holdout profiles are differentiated from experimental profiles, and simulation profiles are listed separately following the experimental and holdout profiles. With CARD format, holdout profiles are not differentiated, and simulation profiles are not produced.
  • If FORMAT=LIST is specified along with the OUTFILE subcommand, the OUTFILE subcommand is ignored (OUTFILE only applies to CARD format). Specifying OUTFILE with FORMAT=BOTH is equivalent to OUTFILE with FORMAT=CARD.

Example

PLANCARDS FORMAT=CARD /OUTFILE='DESIGN.FRM'
  /TITLE=' ' 'Profile #)CARD' /FOOTER='RANK:'.
  • FORMAT=CARD specifies that the output will be in single-profile format.
  • The profiles are written to the file DESIGN.FRM.
  • Each profile in DESIGN.FRM will have the title Profile #n at the top and the label RANK: at the bottom, where n is a profile identification number.

The output for the first two profiles is shown below.

Figure 1. Single-profile format
Single-profile format