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codecount
Purpose: This program provides frequencies of a data set on a column-by-column basis. The main purpose of this program is to be sure that there are reasonable values in the data.
To run, enter codecount < data
Options:
- Ordinarily the output will be ten columns across and will show how frequently the following codes occur in each column (0-9, -, ., space, alphanumeric, and other).
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To get a hexadecimal representation of the data type:
codecount < data +
Notes:
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To run in the background add an ampersand (&) to the
run statement:
codecount < data &
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If data are compressed the data can be piped in from a
decompression program:
zcat data.Z | codecount
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To send output to a file named freq:
codecount < data > freq