[OpenMadrigal-developers] Changes to Madrigal Matlab API and isprint

[Shunrong Zhang]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, William Rideout wrote:
> 
> Future plans:
> 
> To make a better Matlab interface, we need a better API for accessing 
> metadata.  For now, we only have a simple method requested by Shunrong 
> that returns all local file names between two dates.  At a minimum we 
> need to add a method that gets all instrument names, and a method that 
> returns local files names based on instruments and dates.  However, we 
> may also want to search for files based on:
> 
> 1. kind of data code (kindat)
> 2. experiment name
> 3. file type (default vs history)
> 
They'd be natural extentions to the search based on dates and instruments.
But in the near future I don't see immediate applications to my projects.

> 
> Finally, the longer term plan is to make a global search available via 
> Matlab.

Global search via Matlab would be very useful. But an unix/Linux command
line application is more essential in my viewpoint. Because I may have to
process the seaching results using my own software (such as the modeling
and statistics software), which Matlab doesn't necessary have, before I
launch Matlab for plotting. I won't like to use Matlab for processing
large amount of data for statistics. Of course, it's still nice to have
Matlab Global Search for many other applications.

Shunrong