Questions concerning pqact

[Donna Cote]

The problem with an action of NOOP is that the pqact file is still 
processed line-by-line, so if you have
> FEEDTYPE    ^KWAL    NOOP
>
> FEEDTYPE    (^K...)    PIPE  ...blahblahblah...
both lines would be "executed."

-Donna

Devin Eyre wrote:
>
> Couldn't you just put a pattern of KWAL in before the existing one 
> with an action of NOOP?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ldm-users at unidata.ucar.edu <owner-ldm-users at unidata.ucar.edu>
> To: Paul L. Sirvatka <sirvatka at weather.cod.edu>
> CC: Steve Emmerson <steve at unidata.ucar.edu>; LDM-USERS 
> <ldm-users at unidata.ucar.edu>
> Sent: Sat Apr 21 16:40:00 2007
> Subject: Re: Questions concerning pqact
>
> Paul,
>
> Steve's regular expression, as he gave in his previous email, does ask
> that the *first* character be a K but your original regex only showed
> (K...). Steve's REGEX will work if you are asking for patterns
> *beginning* with 'K' and followed by three letters or numbers, with the
> exception of (^KWAL). Maybe this assumption is okay, but just wanted to
> double-check.
>
> -Donna
>
> Steve Emmerson wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > The following extended regular expression will match any 4 characters
> > but "KWAL":
> >
> >     ([^K]...|K[^W]..|KW[^A].|KWA[^L])
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve Emmerson
> >
> > 
> Donna Cote
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