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sddsconvert

• name:
  sddsconvert
• description:
  sddsconvert converts SDDS files between ASCII and binary, and allows wildcard-based filtering-out of unwanted columns and/or rows, as well as renaming of columns.
• synopsis:
  sddsconvert source-file [ target-file] [{-binary | -ascii}] [-delete_columns= matching-string[, matching-string...]] [-retain_columns= matching-string[, matching-string...] [-rename_columns= oldname= newname[, oldname= newname...]] [-row_filter= column-name, matching-string]
• options:
  • binary, ascii - Requests that the output be binary or ASCII.
  • delete_columns, retain_columns - These options specifies wildcard strings to be used to select columns that will respectively be deleted or retained (i.e., that will not or will appear in the output). The selection is performed by determining which columns have names matching any of the strings. If retain_columns is given but delete_columns is not, only those columns matching one of the strings given with retain_columns are retained. If both delete_columns and retain_columns are given, then all columns are retained except those that match a delete_columns string without matching any of the retain_columns strings.
  • row_filter - Specifies a column name and a matching string to use to filter rows from the data. Any row for which the data in the named column matches the matching string is deleted. A more powerful facility of this type is provided by sddsprocess.
  • rename_columns - Specifies new names for columns in the output data set. The columns must still be referred to by their old names in the other commandline options.
• see also:
  • sddsprocess