petsc-3.7.3 2016-07-24
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# PetscViewerASCIIOpen

Opens an ASCII file as a PetscViewer.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscsys.h"
    PetscErrorCode  PetscViewerASCIIOpen(MPI_Comm comm,const char name[],PetscViewer *lab)

Collective on MPI_Comm

### Input Parameters

| comm | - the communicator
| name | - the file name

### Output Parameter

lab -the PetscViewer to use with the specified file

### Notes

This PetscViewer can be destroyed with PetscViewerDestroy().

The MPI communicator used here must match that used by the object one is viewing. For example if the Mat was created with a PETSC_COMM_WORLD, then the Viewer must be created with PETSC_COMM_WORLD

As shown below, PetscViewerASCIIOpen() is useful in conjunction with MatView() and VecView()

         PetscViewerASCIIOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"mat.output",&viewer);
         MatView(matrix,viewer);

### See Also

MatView(), VecView(), PetscViewerDestroy(), PetscViewerBinaryOpen(),
PetscViewerASCIIGetPointer(), PetscViewerPushFormat(), PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_, PETSC_VIEWER_STDERR_, PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_WORLD, PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF,

Level:beginner
Location: src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/ascii/vcreatea.c
Index of all Viewer routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages

### Examples

src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex4.c.html
src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex10.c.html
src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex54.c.html
src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex55.c.html
src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex56.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex15.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex48.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex70.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex9.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex14.c.html