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<p dir="ltr">addfiles(files(::3),"r")</p>
<p dir="ltr">sets the stride to 3 so every third file is opened.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 22, 2015 12:08 PM, "Daniel Barandiaran" <<a href="mailto:dbarandiaran@gmail.com">dbarandiaran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">If you do<br>
addfiles(files(::3),"r")<br>
then it will grab every third file.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 22, 2015 11:33 AM, "Saurabh Singh" <<a href="mailto:saurabhsingh123op@gmail.com" target="_blank">saurabhsingh123op@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>NCL version : 6.3.0</b></div><div><b>OS: UBUNTU</b></div><div><br></div>I am working with hourly WRF files for an year to extract variables. i use add-files to add hourly files for an year. The problem is there are too many files in a year which makes the simulation very slow. in order to overcome this i want to select every 3rd file in the directory (i.e making extraction of 3 hourly files) . My problem is that , is there any way i can change my command: <div> <b>files = systemfunc("ls -1 /media/cee2/cee2/1988knew/wrfout_d01_1988*") + ".nc"<br> a = addfiles(files,"r")</b> to select every 3-hourly files in the directory ?<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span>With regards</span><span></span></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><br></span></span></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>Saurabh Kumar singh</span><span></span>
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