[petsc-users] ASCII viewer formats

[Mark Adams]

Hi Peder,

You can run with '-help -vec_view' (or whatever your view option is) and
that prints all options that are queried for.
This is very noisy so grep on 'vec_view'  and you will see the option
information: what it was, what it is after the query, and what options it
accepts.

I don't know of one that does what you want.
You could write it to a file and use sed or awk, etc.

Mark

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I would like to output the contents of a Vec to an ASCII file in which the
> entries are all on one line, as "x[0]  x[1]  x[2]  ...  x[N-1]". This can
> be done in a slightly roundabout way by putting the values in a 1xN dense
> Mat, assembling the matrix, and then use MatView with a suitable format,
> but one would think that skipping the matrix step and use a VecView
> directly would be more efficient (the procedure is to be repeated many
> times). However, none of the viewer formats seems to support the desired
> output formatting for Vec.
>
> Is there any way to customize viewer formats for a specific layout - or is
> there perhaps a more clever way to do the thing I want?
>
> Also, somewhat relatedly, is there a more detailed specification of
> available viewer formats? The documentation for PetscViewerFormat (
> https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://petsc.org/release/manualpages/Viewer/PetscViewerFormat/*petscviewerformat__;Iw!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bBFDjNvT7RMZgpeDh0FUlbrbeUxPtb93k6PYYqfx5ls9UeUdQ8aiIMM2e7qCFxUOUxQW2MqPjMj9BccmOMloaJI$ 
> <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://petsc.org/release/manualpages/Viewer/PetscViewerFormat/*petscviewerformat__;Iw!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fmgo_gSUThwXeUVpPBhwFVgTXRhk3tS8gDcRbkXu6TQu9lj3Emm5wwGKPUktzKcWMN-isoQKklivtNv-eU4$>)
> briefly describes a number of them, and notes that "A variety of
> specialized formats also exist", although this isn't elaborated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Peder
>
> *Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen*
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