[ncl-talk] Extracting bit information using 'dim_gbits'..

[qudsia zafar]

Thanx alot Dennis. That really helped.

Sincerely,
qudsia

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I am not sure I understand but ...
> Let  us(226,4350)  be of type unsigned short
>
> [1] step-by-step
>
>     us         = f->UnsignedShort
>     printVarSummary(us)
>
>     dim_us = *dimsizes*(us)
>     nleft      = dim_us(0)          ; 226
>     nright    = dim_us(1)          ; 4350
>
>     ibit         = 9                        ; skip 9 bits
>     nbit        = 3                        ; 10-12
>     nskip      = 16                     ; all 'short' are 16 bits
>     N            = nleft*nright
>
>     us_1d     = *ndtooned*(us),
>     ubit_1d   = *dim_gbits*(us_1d, ibit, nbit, nskip, N)
>     ubit         = *reshape*(ubit_1d, (/nleft,nright/) )
>     *delete*(us_1d, ubit_1d)       ; clean up; not really necessary
>
>
> [2} slicker but less clear
>
>     ubit = reshape( *dim_gbits(**ndtooned*(us), ibit, nbit, nskip, N),
> *product*(*dimsizes*(us)) )
>
> [3] As always
>
>         * printVarSummary*(ubit)
>          *printMinMax*(ubit, 0)
>
> Good Luck
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:19 AM, qudsia zafar <missquaddus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working with a 2-D array [226 x 4350] of type 'ushort' consisting of
>> 16-bit integers. I want to extract bits 1-3 in correspondence with bits
>> 10-12 from the array. i have seen the function 'dim_gbits' but am confused
>> in setting the function parameters such as *ibit*, *nbits *and *nskip. *
>>
>> Would very much appreciate the help in this regard.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> qudsia
>>
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