pselect infiles outfiles expr
infiles
The APPHOT/DAOPHOT databases containing the records from which the
selection is to be made.
outfiles
The output APPHOT/DAOPHOT databases containing the selected records.
expr
The boolean expression to be evaluated. The expression
is evaluated once for each record. If expr = yes,
a copy is made of the input file.
PSELECT selects a subset of the records from an APPHOT/DAOPHOT database or a list of databases and writes the new records out to another database or list of databases.
The output records are selected on the basis of an input boolean expression expr whose variables are in the case of text databases the field names specified by the #N keywords or the parameters specified by the #K keywords and in the case of an STSDAS table database the column names. If after substituting the values associated with a particular record into the field name variables the expression evaluates to yes, that record is included in the output database.
The supported operators and functions are briefly described below. A detailed description of the boolean expression evaluator and its syntax can be found in the manual page for the IMAGES package HEDIT task.
The following logical operators can be used in the boolean expression.
equal == not equal != less than < less than or equal <= greater than > greater than or equal >= or || and && negation ! pattern match ?= concatenation //
The pattern match character ?= takes a string expression as its first argument and a pattern as its second argument. The result is yes if the pattern is contained in the string expression. Patterns are strings which may contain pattern matching metacharacters. The metacharacters themselves can be matched by preceeding them with the escape character. The metacharacters are listed below.
beginning of string ^ end of string $
one character ? zero or more characters *
white space # escape character
ignore case { end ignore case }
begin character class [ end character class ]
not, in char class ^ range, in char class -
The boolean expression may also include arithmetic operators and functions. The following arithmetic operators and functions are supported.
addition + subtraction - multiplication * division / negation - exponentiation ** absolute value abs(x) cosine cos(x) sine sin(x) tangent tan(x) arc cosine acos(x) arc sine asin(x) arc tangent atan(x) arc tangent atan2(x,y) exponential exp(x) square root sqrt(x) natural log log(x) common log log10(x) minimum min(x,y) maximum max(x,y) convert to integer int(x) convert to real real(x) nearest integer nint(x) modulo mod(x)
1. Select the records from the output of the APPHOT CENTER task for which 100. <= XCENTER <= 200. and 300. <= YCENTER <= 400.
pt> pselect m92.ctr.3 m92out
"XCE >= 100. && XCE <= 200. && YCE >= 300. && YCE <= 400."
2. Select the records from the output of the APPHOT PHOT task for which the first magnitude is not equal to INDEF. In the case of the an STDSDAS table database it may be necessary to escape the leading square bracket.
pt> pselect n4147.mag.3 n4147out "MAG[1] != INDEF"
or
pt> pselect n4147.mag.3 n4147out "MAG] != INDEF"
3. Select the records from the output of the DAOPHOT ALLSTAR task for which CHI <= 5.0 and MERR <= .10 magnitudes.
pt> pselect m92b.al.2 m92out "CHI <= 5.0 && MERR <= 1.0"
Array valued fields in text databases are not allowed in the expression field.
images.hedit, ptools.tbselect, tables.tselect, ptools.txselect,