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20050216: 20050216: 20050215: LDM question about Redbook graphics/pqact.conf

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  • Subject: 20050216: 20050216: 20050215: LDM question about Redbook graphics/pqact.conf
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:29:15 -0700
>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200502162228.j1GMSov2024391

>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> 
>> Gilbert,
>> 
>> There are other products that begin with "P" that are
>> not redbook graphics, so a global P..... will catch more
>> than just redbook, such as AFOS graphics and some others.
>
>Yep, that is what I think I am seeing here.
> 
>> NWS maintains the list of products, but you can get a general
>> catalog by looking at the pil/product ID fields that
>> are in the IDD data stream, for instance, where the NMCGPH...
>> field denotes the NWS product ID (as is in the data itself):
>> PYWA31 KWBC 160900 !redbook 0_0/NMCGPH9AM/WNDGEO/PXSF000CN/20050216 0940
>> PAW082 KWBC 160900 !redbook 0_0/NMCGPH90R/RDR90R/PDS0000CN/20050216 0954
>> PAW083 KWBC 160900 !redbook 0_0/NMCGPH90S/RDR90S/PDS0000CN/20050216 0954
>> 
>> The GEMPAK distribution maintains the products by their NWS ids.
>
>Ah, that's how it is done. Can I use a .*/p suffix on the header to 
>capture just the redbooks?

You could use a pattern such as
^(P.....) .... ([0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-6][0-9]).*(NMCGPH...)

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



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