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- ARES/Data Summary Help File SUMMARY.HLP
-
- The Summary command ($) prints a summary of the contents
- of each field. For each distinct value in a field, a count
- of those values is given. This is a good way to get a quick
- overview of the data.
-
- Syntax:
- $n<cr> where "n" is 1, 2, 3, or 4.
- <cr> means "carriage return"
- Example:
- $3<cr> (assuming the label for field3 is "SHELTER")
- Results in:
- Database summary for SHELTER at 1259
- SHELTER1 : 23
- SHELTER2 : 12
- SHELTER3 : 9
- COUNTYHOSP : 5
- ARES/Data done at 1300, found 4 distinct values, entire DB has 49 records.
-
- In this example, there are 23 people registered at SHELTER1, 12 people
- at SHELTER2, etc.
-