[Carpet] [Carpet-darcs] CarpetIOASCII: added utility script to merge CarpetIOASCII output written before and after recovery

[Thomas Radke]

Thomas Radke wrote:
> Erik Schnetter wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:10:15, Thomas Radke wrote:
>>
>>> Erik Schnetter wrote:
>>>
>>>> The largest problems are datasets which are only partially written,
>>>> because the process was interrupted (or crashed because it ran out of
>>>> disk space).  That can lead to only parts of lines being present.  I
>>>> would be nice if this could be handled as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can try. Do you have any such output file(s) ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Not at the moment.  One way of generating such a file is taking an  
>> existing file and truncating it after e.g. 10240 bytes or so.
> 
> 
> So you want to keep the newest dataset and discard older ones ? This 
> isn't possible when reading from a stream - the script would then need 
> to read from a (set of) physical file(s) in two stages: (1) to analyse 
> all the datasets and sort them, and (2) to actually output them again, 
> omitting duplicates.

I pushed corresponding patches for both the mergeCarpetIOScalar.pl and 
the mergeCarpetIOASCII.pl script. Give it a try !

-- 
Cheers, Thomas.