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20010503: 20010502: gribkey.tbl wildcard for center id?

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  • Subject: 20010503: 20010502: gribkey.tbl wildcard for center id?
  • Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 10:47:34 -0600
OK. Sounds good. Give me a few days to a week.
I'm a little burried at the moment but canmplement something.


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: "Stonie R. Cooper" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Planetary Data, Incorporated
>Keywords: 200105031136.f43BaDp12032

>Steve,
>
>Thanks for info - I'll just keep doing like you have been, i.e. log file 
>scans.
>
>Stonie
>
>On Thursday 03 May 2001 04:54, you wrote:
>> Stonie,
>>
>> I didn't include a wildcard for center ID's (the known centers defined in
>> cntrgrib1.tbl). Actually, the "characters" used for wildcards in
>> gribkey.tbl don't matter so much as that when the x, ??? or @@@ are read,
>> the conversion to numbers fails and I stick in a default value to match
>> against.
>>
>> I would probably stick -1 in for the p->center when the conversion fails,
>> then add an extra test like if(p->center == center )||(p->center == -1) .
>>
>> Also would need a center template for the output file name.
>>
>> Of course, I scan the decoder logs from time to time to find things missing
>> from the grib tables.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>>
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>> >Before I commence a source code dig, does anyone know the wildcard for
>> > center id in the dcgrib2 config file "gribkey.tbl"?
>> >
>> >For instance:
>> >
>> >098  x  ??? @@@ /nrs_data0/gempak/model/ecmwf/YYYYMMDDHH_ecmwf@@@.gem  100
>> >
>> >is catching all the grib messages from Reading (98) and is wildcarding the
>> >sub-center (x), the process (???) and the projection/grid code (@@@).  I
>> >would like to wildcard the center, also, at the end of gribkey.tbl, so as
>> > to catch anything undefined - like:
>> >
>> >* x ??? @@@ /nrs_data0/gempak/model/unknown/YYYYMMDDHH_%%%_###_@@@.gem 
>> > 500
>> >
>> > - so that "*" is whatever wildcard is expected for center id.
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance for any help . . .
>> >--
>> >Stonie R. Cooper,
>> >Science Officer
>> >Planetary Data, Incorporated
>> >3495 Liberty Road
>> >Villa Rica, Georgia  30180
>> >ph. (770) 456-0700; pg. (888) 974-5017; fx. (770) 459-0016
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>Stonie R. Cooper,
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>3495 Liberty Road
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