Re: Chaining a large number of files

From: Valeri Fine (Faine) (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 23:08:17 MET


----- Original Message -----
From: Philip M Borawski <bphilip@utdallas.edu>
To: <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
Sent: 18 февраля 2000 г. 16:21
Subject: Chaining a large number of files


> Could somebody please post an example of chaining over a large number of
> files without having to list each file manually with
>
> TChain chain("h1");
> chain.Add("rootfile1.root");
> chain.Add("rootfile2.root");
>
> I am a fairly new C++ and ROOT user and am having difficulty understanding
> how to do this efficently...is it easier to write the filenames to a file
> and just use C++ to read the strings in or can you use ROOT to read
> straight from the directory?  Perhaps with GetListOfFiles?  Any working
> example would help me immensely...
>
  Have a look

http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/html/comp_l/root/html/src/St_FileSet.cxx.html#St_FileSet:St_FileSet

You can use a pattern.

                  Valery



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