Parse the ARM datastream filename

This is an example of how to parse the datastream filename into its constituent parts.

Site is sgp
Datastream Class is met
Facility is E13
Level is b1
Datastream is sgpmetE13.b1
Date is 20190501
Time is 024254
File extension is nc

Site is sgp
Datastream Class is met
Facility is E13
Level is b1
Datastream is sgpmetE13.b1
Date is None
Time is None
File extension is None

from act.utils.data_utils import DatastreamParserARM

# Here we have a full path filename.
filename = '/data/sgp/sgpmetE13.b1/sgpmetE13.b1.20190501.024254.nc'

# What if we want to extract some metadata from the filename instead of reading the file
# and extracting from the global attributes. We can call the DatastreamParserARM() method
# and extract the string value from the object using its properties.

fn_obj = DatastreamParserARM(filename)
print(f"Site is {fn_obj.site}")
print(f"Datastream Class is {fn_obj.datastream_class}")
print(f"Facility is {fn_obj.facility}")
print(f"Level is {fn_obj.level}")
print(f"Datastream is {fn_obj.datastream}")
print(f"Date is {fn_obj.date}")
print(f"Time is {fn_obj.time}")
print(f"File extension is {fn_obj.ext}")

# We can also use the parser for just the datastream part to extract the parts.
# The other methods will not have a value and return None.

filename = 'sgpmetE13.b1'

fn_obj = DatastreamParserARM(filename)
print(f"\nSite is {fn_obj.site}")
print(f"Datastream Class is {fn_obj.datastream_class}")
print(f"Facility is {fn_obj.facility}")
print(f"Level is {fn_obj.level}")
print(f"Datastream is {fn_obj.datastream}")
print(f"Date is {fn_obj.date}")
print(f"Time is {fn_obj.time}")
print(f"File extension is {fn_obj.ext}")

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