EXAMPLES OF SEARCH PATTERNS IN PLOTMAN MULTI OVERLAY INTERFACE 03-Feb-2010 Assume we have a PLOTMAN session with the following panels: Clean 13:01 3-6keV Clean 13:01 6-12keV Clean 13:01 12-25keV Clean 13:22 3-6keV Clean 13:22 6-12keV Clean 13:22 12-25keV Pixon 13:01 6-12keV Pixon 13:01 12-25keV Sim 1 Sim 2 Sim 3 Recon 1 clean Recon 1 pixon Recon 2 clean Recon 2 pixon Recon 3 clean Recon 3 pixon SIMPLE SEARCHES. ASSUME YOU'VE SELECTED THESE BASE PANELS: Pixon 13:01 6-12keV Pixon 13:01 12-25keV Base pattern = blank, Overlay pattern = clean Finds the first two panels with clean in the name. Result: Clean 13:01 3-6keV Clean 13:01 6-12keV Base pattern = blank, Overlay pattern = clean*12-25* Finds the first two panels with 'clean' anything '12-25'. Result: Clean 13:01 12-25keV Clean 13:22 12-25keV Base pattern = pixon, overlay pattern = clean For each base panel name, replace 'pixon' by 'clean' and search. Result: Clean 13:01 6-12keV Clean 13:01 12-25keV SEARCHES USING !. ASSUME YOU'VE SELECTED THESE BASE PANELS: Recon 2 pixon Recon 3 pixon Base pattern = recon!!, Overlay pattern = sim!! Force the two characters after recon in base panel to match 2 characters after sim in overlays. e.g. for first base panel, search string is 'sim 2*'. Note: if you didn't use the !! to force the match and just searched for sim, it would have found 'Sim 1' and 'Sim 2'. Result: Sim 2 Sim 3 Base pattern = recon!!, Overlay pattern = recon!!*clean Force the two characters after recon in base panel to match 2 characters after recon in overlays, followed by anthing followed by clean. e.g. for first base panel, search string is 'recon 2*clean*' Recon 2 clean Recon 3 clean NOTE: You can use more than one set of !s to require more than one part of the basea and overlay strings to match, but you must have an equal number of ! groups in the base and overlay patterns.