RE: [femm] Re: Lua sample of line integral

["Carl Kopin" <ckopin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

Try this:

In the preprocessor create your file like this:

handle=openfile('mydata.txt','w')
write(handle,'my comment 1\n', 'my comment
2\n',data1,'\n',data2[,'\n',data3[,...]])
closefile(handle)


In the postprocessor read your file as follows:

handle=openfile('mydata.txt','r')
line1,line2,d1,d2=read(handle,'*l','*n','*n')
close(handle)

Writing the mydata.txt file is simple, the trick is to properly read it.
If you ad a comment line or to in the beginning of your file, you have
to read it it/them first before your data, that's why you add '*l' ( the
"l" is a lower case L, which means to read whole line) in the beginning
one for each line, and then you add the '*n' (to read numbers) as many
times as needed to read your data. You don't need to read the whole
file, but you must read it from the very beginning to the last point of
your interest. You do not need your comment lines in your postprocessor,
but you must read them to a "junk" var in order to access the data part.
To send/read characters, in the preprocessor use the form of 'my
char\n', in the postprocessor use '*w' that stands for word. You can use
"new line" (\n) or tab (\t) as your delimiters. (Are spaces OK, too? I
am not sure, did not try.)

I think, this will help you (and possibly others, too).
Other comments are welcomed.
Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: jim271@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jim271@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Sunday, August 19, 2001 08:23
To:	femm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	[femm] Re: Lua sample of line integral

Dave,

Thank you for the example. This is very helpful.


Dave: " As far as getting information from one iteration to the next, 
or from the preprocessor to the postprocessor, perhaps the easiest 
way to do this is via the use of a temporary file. I have used a 
temporary file in this example to send the current plunger position 
to the postprocessor so that it can write this piece of info to the 
output file. "

I can get the post processing file to read one variable that is 
passed by the main script file, but I can't seem to get it to read 
two or more data values from the same line of the data file.

Can someone please show an example of reading multiple variables from 
a file by the post processor?

-- Jim




 

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