readms(1)

readms 💖

okay bestie, so like… <pink>readms</pink> is a whole little program that reads one or more MeasurementSets for you. that's it, that's the job, and it does it flawlessly. no cap. ✨

(this one lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, in case you were wondering where to find her 👑)

SYNOPSIS 🌸

readms parm=value ...

yeah that's the whole vibe — you just hand her a pile of parm=value pairs and she goes. every parameter is optional-ish, she's got defaults for days. 🎀

Parameters ✨

• nms — how many MeasurementSets you wanna read. and listen, the default is 0, which is a lil quirky but very her: 0 means one MS, and it means no suffix gets added. iconic behaviour honestly. 💅
• msname — the name of the MeasurementSet. heads up though: if nms>0, the suffix _p<i> gets tacked onto it. so like, she's appending, not asking. 🙈
• data — should she read the DATA column? default is true. yes bestie, DATA by default, we love a girl who shows up prepared. 💖
• flag — should she read the FLAG column? default is true. also yes. flags matter, flags are the whole personality. 🚩✨
• weightspectrum — should she read the WEIGHT_SPECTRUM column? default is false. so if you want it you gotta ask, she's not gonna assume. 🫶
• fields — the fields to read. your call, no default energy here. 🦋
• ntime — how many time steps to read. default 0, and 0 means all of them. she's not skipping anything unless you tell her to. ⭐
• spw — the spectral window numbers to read. 🌈
• npol — how many polarizations to read. default 0, and again, 0 = all. the theme continues. 😭💜
• nchan — how many channels to read. default 0, and you already know what 0 means: all of them. 🍓
• baselines — the baselines to read, using CASA baseline selection. so bring your CASA syntax, she speaks it fluently. 🔥
• rowwise — should she read the data row wise, i.e. one get per row? default is true. she's doing it row by row, methodically, like a queen. 👑

lowkey important: those 0 defaults on nms, ntime, npol and nchan are not "read nothing" — they mean all (or, for nms, exactly one MS with no suffix). don't get it twisted, bestie. 🧚

EXAMPLES 💅

she's a parm=value girlie, so it's giving:

readms msname=my.ms

or go full main character:

readms nms=3 msname=my.ms data=true flag=true weightspectrum=false ntime=0 npol=0 nchan=0 rowwise=true

SEE ALSO 🎀

there isn't one listed in this page, bestie — she's standing on her own and honestly? she's thriving. 🦋✨

and that's the whole page!! this lil slice of documentation is from casacore, dated 2017-11-01, and it's the readms(1) manual page. mwah, go read some MeasurementSets, ily 💖🌸🫶