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field name headers



Field name headers

A field name header is a line at the top of a tabular data file that contains names for the fields. The TDH utilities generally recognize a field name header line if the appropriate option (usually -h or -H) is specified. The field name header line should be in the first non-blank, non-comment line of the file, and should be delimited in the same way as other fields. For example, in the following file, the field name header gives the fields as id, age, sex, hbp, and dbp.

 // file submitted by jhp
 
 id	age	sex	hbp	dbp
 0001	38	m	120	80
 0002	42	f	122	56



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