---
name: "svm-checkdata"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libsvm-tools"
version: "3.24+ds-6.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/svm-checkdata"
---

# svm-checkdata(1)

a LIBSVM format checking tool

## NAME

svm-checkdata - a LIBSVM format checking tool

## SYNOPSIS

**svm-checkdata** *dataset*

## DESCRIPTION

[**svm-train**(1)](/svm-train/1.md) conducts only a simple check of the input data. To do a detailed check, we provide this python script.

## FILES

See [**svm-train**(1)](/svm-train/1.md) for the format of  *dataset*

## EXAMPLES

-

  \> cat bad\_data

-

  1 3:1 2:4

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  \> svm-checkdata bad\_data

line 1: feature indices must be in an ascending order, previous/current features 3:1 2:4 Found 1 lines with error.

## BUGS

Please report bugs to the Debian BTS.

## AUTHOR

Chih-Chung Chang, Chih-Jen Lin \<cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw\>, Chen-Tse Tsai \<ctse.tsai@gmail.com\> (packaging)

## SEE ALSO

[**svm-train**(1)](/svm-train/1.md), [**svm-predict**(1)](/svm-predict/1.md)