.. _interface-analysis_drivers-fork-parameters_format-standard:

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standard
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Use the standard format for parameters files



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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* None


**Description**



When this keyword is used, parameters files will be written in
the default `standard` format, which is explained
:ref:`here <variables:parameters:standard>`. A strength of the `standard`
format is that it is relatively easy to parse using ordinary GNU
text processing tools. It is also understood by Dakota's template
processing tool, :ref:`dprepro <interfaces:dprepro-and-pyprepro>`
and the :ref:`dakota.interfacing <interfaces:dakota.interfacing>`
module.




**Examples**



.. code-block::

    interface
      fork
      analysis_drivers 'driver.py'
      parameters_file = "params.in"
      results_file = "results.out"
      parameters_format
        standard