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>From: Gerry Creager N5JXS <address@hidden> >Organization: Texas A&M University -- AATLT >Keywords: 200507130251.j6D2pSjo014879 LDM pqact.conf Hi Gerry, >I'm trying something along the lines of: >WMO (^S[IMN]V[^GINS])|(^S[IMN]W[^KZ]) > FILE -strip data/sfc/ship6h/YYYYMMDDHH_s6/\1 >so I can aggregate the ships/bouys reports. I need a timestamp to make >the decoding go a bit better, and for insertion into a PostGRESQL database. > >What I'm getting is a directory created that's >~ldm/data/sfc/ship6h/YYYYMMDDHH_s6 instead of a timestamp. The YYMMDDHH syntax is a GEMPAK construct, not an LDM one. The LDM supports the 'strftime' syntax for assigning years, hours, minutes based on the product creation time and another syntax based on the real time clock. The LDM reference for the various time-based syntaxes is: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.3.0/basics/pqact.conf.html Here is one example of how we use this to file NGRID (NOAAPORT higer resolution model output in GRIB2 format): # # catchall NGRID ^_ELSE_$ FILE data/ngrid/%y%m%d%H_else.ngrid The directory listing in this case looks like: cd ~ldm ls data/ngrid/ 200507111200.ngrid 200507121200.ngrid_eta 200507111200.ngrid_dgex-ak 200507121200.ngrid_eta-ak 200507111200.ngrid_eta 200507121200.ngrid_gfs 200507111200.ngrid_eta-ak 200507121200.ngrid_ndfd ... >Where'd I go stupid? The same place the rest of us went... old age ;-) >Thanks, gerry No worries. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.