rc parameter scantable.reference no longer works

[simon.ellingsen@…]

Hi Malte,

One of my students is running ASAP 4.0.0 under linux and we are having trouble getting the values in the .asaprc file recognised on startup.  I'm not sure if this is a bug, or something stupid that I'm doing.

The .asaprc file contains just a single line
scantable.reference        : .*(e|w|_R|\+R|\-R)$

The file has permissions 644 and I've had this setup working well under previous versions of ASAP.

On startup ASAP gives the following messages :
Loading ASAP...
loaded rc file /home/Ellen/.asaprc
Welcome to ASAP v4.0.0 (2011-10-05) - the ATNF Spectral Analysis Package

Please report any bugs via:
http://svn.atnf.csiro.au/trac/asap/simpleticket

but when we type list_rcparameters() we get the following for scantable.reference :
# Control the identification of reference (off) scans
# This is has to be a regular expression
scantable.reference        : .*(e|w|_R)$

The data from Hobart has the references labelled with +R, so until I can correct this we can't use the auto_quotient method, which is a major pain.

Regards

Simon

[Malte Marquarding]

A quick work around is:

def fixoff(s):
    s.set_selection(query="SRCNAME=regex('.*(\+R)$')")
    s._setsourcetype(1)
    s.set_selection() 

There are two issues:

• setreferenceexpr in scantable was applied before the data is attached.
• scantable.set_sourcetype was broken so the alternative didn't work either.

for future reference. scantable.set_sourcetype can be used for setting on/offs by hand. e.g.

myscan = scantable("blah.rpf")
myscan.set_sourcetype('.*(\\+R)$', 'regex', sourcetype='r')

[Malte Marquarding]

This has been fixed in r2480 and will be available in asap-4.1.0.