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20050520: Question about pqact.conf

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  • Subject: 20050520: Question about pqact.conf
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:44:51 -0600
Gilbert,

To use the \n:mmm, the number n refers to the nth set of parentheses,
and you will want the parentheses being the field that contains the day of month
which as you end you message with, is \4:mmm.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200505201753.j4KHrEP3011722

>Hello gang,
>
>I am getting the tropical cyclone products now, but they're not saving the 
>way I want them to. For example, I have:
>
>
>WMO     ^WT(..)3([1-5]) (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    domestic/tropical/public_advisory_\1.(\2:mmm)\2
>
>It is saving it like this:
>
>public_advisory_1.mmm:mmm)CA
>
>And I can't remember the original way it was saved, since I changed the 
>WMO headers. Can you see what I am trying to do here, and what is wrong 
>with
>
>1.(\2:mmm)\2
>
>Should it be 3.(\4:mmm)\4?
>
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>Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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>Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
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