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Jason, The actual patterns would be: HRS ^Y.RA.. KWBE ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) etc. I left out the HRS feedtype and the two ".." which are the 2 digit level numbers which are needed in an actual pqact.conf entry. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jason J. Levit wrote: > > > You can create pqact.conf FILE actions such as: > > ^Y.RA KWBE ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > FILE eta40grb.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2f000 > > ^Z.RB KWBE ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > FILE eta40grb.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2f003 > > ^Y.RB KWBE ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > FILE eta40grb.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2f006 > > ^Y.RC KWBE ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > > FILE eta40grb.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2f012 > > etc. > > Hi Steve, > > Thanks for the help! However, I tried putting the above in my > pqact.conf file, and I'm not seeing any of the ETA data. I tried a > separate test of decoding the data us "dcgrib" within GEMPAK, and that > worked - so I know I'm at least receiving the data. However, I can't > see any problems with the above example you worked. Do you have any > suggestions? Thanks for all of your information and help! > > Jason > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jason J. Levit, N9MLA Research Scientist, > address@hidden Center for Analysis and Prediction of > Storms > Room 1022 University of Oklahoma > 405/325-3503 http://www.caps.ou.edu/ >