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Gregg, You have a space between the date and your .*, however the date field will be DDHHMM- so pqact expects the character following the 4th character of the date to be a space, when actually it will be another digit. Here is an example from the nwx entries I distribute: WMO ^...... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/pRER Steve Chiswell Unidata User SUpport On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Gregory Grosshans wrote: > With the following setup in pqact.conf I no longer receive any record reports > using the /pRER option. Prior to trying the /p option record reports were > received along with road reports, etc. Thus, I tried configuring pqact.conf > with > the /p option with out any success. > > Can someone tell me if the following is correct: > > # Record Event Statements > > WMO ^SXUS(74|99) .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) .* /pRER > FILE data/nwx/pubprod/record/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.record > WMO ^SXUS4[123456] .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) .* /pRER > FILE data/nwx/pubprod/record/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.record > > WMO ^SXUS99 .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) .* /pRER > FILE data/nwx/pubprod/record/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.record > WMO ^SXCA[89]9 .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) .* /pRER > FILE data/nwx/pubprod/record/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.record > WMO ^SXCA42 TJSJ ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) .* /pRER > FILE data/nwx/pubprod/record/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.record > > When using the /p option can only a portion of the 'NNNXXX' be specified? > > Thanks, > Gregg Grosshans > >