20010105: ETA entry in pqact.conf problems

>From: Christian Page <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200101051436.f05Eauo01228

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>Hi, I try to get the 80km ETA output for Precipitation, MSLP and 
>geopotential height at 1000 hPa and 500 hPa, for all forecast times. I try wit
> h
>the following entry in pqact.conf with no success (no output file is created):
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>HDS     ^[YZ]([EHP])Q(.)(98|99|89|87|50)*/mETA
>        FILE    data/models/eta_\1_\2_\3.grib
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>Any idea why it isn't working?
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>Thanks,
>
>Christian Page      finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse
>address@hidden    http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
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>Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant
>Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar
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>

Christian,
The following expression works for me:
HDS     ^[YZ]([EHP])Q(.)(98|99|89|87|50) .*/mETA

I think the uncertainty in the expression comes from whether the group
following the * in your expression is trying to match the KWB. group.

Steve Chiswell