[ncl-talk] file selection

[Daniel Barandiaran]

Sorry, forgot to add ncl-talk to the receiver list, so reposting so
everyone gets my response.

addfiles(files(::3),"r")

sets the stride to 3 so every third file is opened.
On Aug 22, 2015 12:08 PM, "Daniel Barandiaran" <dbarandiaran at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you do
> addfiles(files(::3),"r")
> then it will grab every third file.
> On Aug 22, 2015 11:33 AM, "Saurabh Singh" <saurabhsingh123op at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> *NCL version : 6.3.0*
>> *OS: UBUNTU*
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> *files = systemfunc("ls -1 /media/cee2/cee2/1988knew/wrfout_d01_1988*") +
>> ".nc"   a = addfiles(files,"r")*  to select every 3-hourly files in the
>> directory ?
>>
>> --
>> With regards
>> Saurabh Kumar singh
>>
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>>
>>
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