[ivan_cozza]

Hi Foamers,
I need to read a list of lists from a dictionary composed as follows:

listName
number of elements
(
(a b c d e f)
(g h i l m n)
....
)


where letters are labels. Something like blockMesh does when reading the blocks in blockMeshDict.
Can someone suggest me how to do it?
Thank you in advance,
Ivan

[olwi]

Hi Ivan,

Knowing there's another piece of code that already does what you want is half the answer: If I was you, I would have a look at the source code for blockMesh, and see what it does to read the blockMeshDict.

/Ola

[l_r_mcglashan]

I read in labels from a file using labelIOList, which is just a typedef for IOList<label>, so I imagine labelListIOList (IOList<labelList>) is what you want. It's probably used as follows:

labelListIOList listListName
(
IOobject
(
"listListName",
runTime.time().constant(), // Assuming your dictionary is in constant/
mesh,
IOobject::MUST_READ,
IOobject::NO_WRITE
),
variable of type List<labelList>
);

It looks like the functionality you looking for with reading the listList from a dictionary is in the file createTopology.C in the blockMesh folder.

[ivan_cozza]

Thank you Laurence,
I tested your solution, and it works fine for me!
Ivan

Originally Posted by l_r_mcglashan

I read in labels from a file using labelIOList, which is just a typedef for IOList<label>, so I imagine labelListIOList (IOList<labelList>) is what you want. It's probably used as follows:

labelListIOList listListName
(
IOobject
(
"listListName",
runTime.time().constant(), // Assuming your dictionary is in constant/
mesh,
IOobject::MUST_READ,
IOobject::NO_WRITE
),
variable of type List<labelList>
);

It looks like the functionality you looking for with reading the listList from a dictionary is in the file createTopology.C in the blockMesh folder.

[PicklER]

Hello

Could you (Laurence or Ivan) please elaborate a little bit more how to achieve the reading in of a list. Say I want to read in the list "datP" that is (0.5 5.0 10.0) from the a file called "Data" in the constant directory. I followed the solution of Laurence but my lack of knowledge of C++ is not helping

In my my main program (solver):

#include "labelListIOList.H"

and

#include "readData.H"

readData.H looks as follows:

labelListIOList Data
(

IOobject

(

"Data",

runTime.time().constant(),

mesh,

IOobject::MUST_READ,

IOobject::NO_WRITE

),

labelList(datP)

);

I know the labelList(datP) is not correct. My Data file looks as follows (all files include headers):

datP (0.5 5.0 10.0);

Kind regards

[vigneshTG]

Dear All,

I tried to create IO object of type labelListList using the information i found in this thread which is given below

labelListIOList proxCells
(
IOobject
(
"proxCells",
runTime.time().constant(), // Assuming your dictionary is in constant/
mesh,
IOobject::NO_READ,
IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
),

);

I tried compiling it but i get an error as shown below

 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }  findProxCells.C: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
 findProxCells.C:95:1: error: expected primary-expression before ')' token
 make: *** [Make/linux64GccDPOpt/findProxCells.o] Error 1

Can some one tell me what i am missing in definition ?

Have a nice weekend !!

[vigneshTG]

Dear All,

Finally i found a solution, here it is !!

IOList<labelList> proximityCells(
      IOobject(
                "proximityCells",
                runTime.time().constant(),
                mesh,
                IOobject::MUST_READ,
                IOobject::NO_WRITE
            )
     );

Please correct me if i am wrong !