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Data Filenames

The standard I/O thorns in Cactus make use of a consistent set of filenames and extensions, which identify the variables and data format used in the file. The filenames are listed in the following table.


Table A6.2: Filenames used by standard I/O thorns
I/O method Filename for output of variable var
Info only outputs to screen
Scalar <var>.{asc|xg} for scalar variables
  <var>_<reduction>.{asc|xg} for reduction values from grid arrays
IOASCII_1D <var>_<slice>_[<center_i>][center_j>].{asc|xg}
IOASCII_2D <var>_<plane>_[<center>].asc
IOASCII_3D <var>_3D.asc
IOJpeg <var>_<plane>_[<center>].jpeg
IOHDF5 <var>_3D.h5
IOFlexIO_2D <var>_2D.ieee
IOFlexIO <var>_3D.ieee