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<p class="MsoNormal">If the variable in the files is the same dimension, you should be able to to use addfiles to read all of them without looping (I think). In this example I’ve put all your directory paths into a single string array, DATADir. Depending on
how many files are in each directory you **may** hit file list limits with addfiles.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m also assuming that you’re looping though i and j to get local sums – here I’ve used the range of i and j as ‘imin, imax, jmin and jmax<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FILES = systemfunc(“ls -1 {“+str_join(DATADir,”,”)+”}/subset_d03_2014-*”) ;uses the unix {} operator to search all the required directories<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">fi = addfiles(FILES,”r”)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ListSetType(fi, “join”) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> tmp_data = fi[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,imin:imax,jmin:jmax) ;read all files across the range of i and j, tmp_data is dimensioned (nfile, Ni, Nj)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pm25_sim_a = dim_sum_n(tmp_data, (/1,2/)) ;sum all i, j dimensions<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pm25_sim_a = pm25_sim_a/12.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That gives you what I **think** you’re after without loops....<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ncl-talk <ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu> on behalf of Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 22 February 2019 at 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Tabish Ansari <tabishumaransari@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"ncl-talk@ucar.edu USERS" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ncl-talk] Fwd: efficient way of reading numbered directories?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothin of which I am aware. You can nt automatically create variables on the left hand side.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe Adam has an idea.. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-im">pm25_sim_a1 = a1[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 3:53 PM Tabish Ansari <<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br>
Bailrigg, Lancaster, <br>
LA1 4YW, United Kingdom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>
From: <b>Tabish Ansari</b> <<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com" target="_blank">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 22:52<br>
Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] efficient way of reading numbered directories?<br>
To: Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu" target="_blank">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>><br>
Cc: Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Hi Adam, Dennis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Thanks very much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">But this only solves part of the problem that is reading in the directories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">I still have these other lines which have to be repeated 60 times with changing numbers as part of variable names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">FILES1 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir1 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES2 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir2 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES3 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir3 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES4 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir4 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES5 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir5 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES6 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir6 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<br>
FILES7 = systemfunc (" ls -1 " + DATADir7 + "subset_d03_2014-* ")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">..... and so on up to FILES60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">a1 = addfiles(FILES1,"r")<br>
a2 = addfiles(FILES2,"r")<br>
a3 = addfiles(FILES3,"r")<br>
a4 = addfiles(FILES4,"r")<br>
a5 = addfiles(FILES5,"r")<br>
a6 = addfiles(FILES6,"r")<br>
a7 = addfiles(FILES7,"r")<br>
a8 = addfiles(FILES8,"r")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">.... and so on up to a60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">pm25_sim_a1 = a1[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a2 = a2[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a3 = a3[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a4 = a4[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a5 = a5[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a6 = a6[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<br>
pm25_sim_a7 = a7[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">..... and so on up to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">pm25_sim_a60 = a60[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Further inside a loop...<br>
pm25_sim_a1 = pm25_sim_a1 + a1[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<br>
pm25_sim_a2 = pm25_sim_a2 + a2[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<br>
pm25_sim_a3 = pm25_sim_a3 + a3[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<br>
pm25_sim_a4 = pm25_sim_a4 + a4[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<br>
pm25_sim_a5 = pm25_sim_a5 + a5[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<br>
pm25_sim_a6 = pm25_sim_a6 + a6[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">and so on... up to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">pm25_sim_a60 = pm25_sim_a60 + a60[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,J,I)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">pm25_sim_a1 = pm25_sim_a1 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a2 = pm25_sim_a2 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a3 = pm25_sim_a3 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a4 = pm25_sim_a4 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a5 = pm25_sim_a5 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a6 = pm25_sim_a6 / 12.0<br>
pm25_sim_a7 = pm25_sim_a7 / 12.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">... and so on up to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">pm25_sim_a6<span class="gmaildefault">0</span> = pm25_sim_a6<span class="gmaildefault">0</span> / 12.0</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Is there a way to deal with that in a loop?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dennis: Agreed, your way is more elegant. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Originally, I was going to use a 'do loop' but then <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> N = 60<br>
dirRoot = "/mnt/rasher/"+N+"sensruns/run" +<b>ispan</b>(1,N,1)+"/"<br>
print(dirRoot)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">I am currently reading in files in a very inefficient way from 60 directories:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">DATADir1 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run1/"<br>
DATADir2 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run2/"<br>
DATADir3 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run3/"<br>
DATADir4 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run4/"<br>
DATADir5 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run5/"<br>
DATADir6 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run6/"<br>
DATADir7 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run7/"<br>
DATADir8 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run8/"<br>
DATADir9 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run9/"<br>
DATADir10 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run10/"<br>
DATADir11 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run11/"<br>
DATADir12 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run12/"<br>
DATADir13 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run13/"<br>
DATADir14 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run14/"<br>
DATADir15 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run15/"<br>
DATADir16 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run16/"<br>
DATADir17 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run17/"<br>
DATADir18 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run18/"<br>
DATADir19 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run19/"<br>
DATADir20 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run20/"<br>
DATADir21 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run21/"<br>
DATADir22 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run22/"<br>
DATADir23 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run23/"<br>
DATADir24 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run24/"<br>
DATADir25 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run25/"<br>
DATADir26 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run26/"<br>
DATADir27 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run27/"<br>
DATADir28 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run28/"<br>
DATADir29 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run29/"<br>
DATADir30 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run30/"<br>
DATADir31 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run31/"<br>
DATADir32 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run32/"<br>
DATADir33 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run33/"<br>
DATADir34 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run34/"<br>
DATADir35 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run35/"<br>
DATADir36 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run36/"<br>
DATADir37 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run37/"<br>
DATADir38 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run38/"<br>
DATADir39 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run39/"<br>
DATADir40 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run40/"<br>
DATADir41 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run41/"<br>
DATADir42 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run42/"<br>
DATADir43 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run43/"<br>
DATADir44 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run44/"<br>
DATADir45 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run45/"<br>
DATADir46 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run46/"<br>
DATADir47 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run47/"<br>
DATADir48 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run48/"<br>
DATADir49 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run49/"<br>
DATADir50 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run50/"<br>
DATADir51 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run51/"<br>
DATADir52 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run52/"<br>
DATADir53 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run53/"<br>
DATADir54 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run54/"<br>
DATADir55 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run55/"<br>
DATADir56 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run56/"<br>
DATADir57 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run57/"<br>
DATADir58 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run58/"<br>
DATADir59 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run59/"<br>
DATADir60 = "/mnt/rasher/60sensruns/run60/"<br>
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For each directory I will further have to do this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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a1 = addfiles(FILES1,"r")<br>
pm25_sim_a1 = a1[:]->PM2_5_DRY(:,0,145,79)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">(I will have to type this another 59 times for the other directories)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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