Accessing particular entries of TTreeReaderValue

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1

Hello *,
I am trying to use TTreeReaderValues like below

TFile *myFile = TFile::Open("hello.root");
TTreeReader myReader("MYTree", myFile);
TTreeReaderValue<Track> myTrack(myReader, "Track");

if i access the entries like

while (myReader.Next()) {
      (*myTrack).Print();
}

then its working fine.

but if i want to access only a specific entry say entry no. 10.
then also do i have to traverse using Next() function ? or is there
any way to access the required entry directly,
may be something like

  (*myTrack[10]).Print();

Regards,

2

I think you are missing the type of the variable. Try:

TFile *myFile = TFile::Open("hello.root");
TTreeReader myReader("MYTree", myFile);
TTreeReaderValue<Float_t> myTrack(myReader, "Track");

while (myReader.Next()) {
    std::cout << *myTrack << "\n";
}

Or similar (this is for the case where your branch is a float).

This is also visible in the examples given in the documentation.

3

Hi Graipher ,
Ya that the typo,
In my case it is my class call Track
TTreeReaderValue < Track > myTrack(myReader, “Track”);

After that the question remain same, you are also accessing different entries
by traversing one by one using Next()

But is there any way to access directly a particular entry like entry num 5

4

I think in that case you just want to use the normal approach. I think TTreeReader is better if you really want to run over all entries.

TFile *myFile = TFile::Open("hello.root");
TTree* tree = (TTree*) myFile->Get("MYTree");

// Setup branch addresses
Track myTrack;
tree->SetBranchAddress("Track", &myTrack);

// Get entry number 5
tree->GetEntry(4);  // indices start at 0
myTrack.Print();

If somewhere else you need to loop over all entries, you can do that, too:

// Loop over all entries
Long64_t nentries = tree->GetEntries();
for(Long64_t i=0; i < nentries; i++) {
    tree->GetEntry(i);
    myTrack.Print();
}
5

Hi,
I’d suggest sticking with TTreeReader actually: it has a SetEntry method:

TFile *myFile = TFile::Open("hello.root");
TTreeReader myReader("MYTree", myFile);
TTreeReaderValue myTrack(myReader, "Track");
myReader.SetEntry(10);
myTrack.Print(); // prints 11th entry
6

…and since we are here, here is how you do it with TDataFrame (complete working code) :slightly_smiling_face:

#include "ROOT/TDataFrame.hxx"
ROOT::Experimental::TDataFrame d("MYTree", "hello.root");
auto vecTrack = d.Range(10,11).Take<Track>("Track");
// vecTrack has size 1 and vecTrack[0] is your 10th entry :)
7

As enrico says.
A thing I’d like to note is that the number of lines needed to get out your track from the entire dataset with TDataFrame is 2 against the 5 of the other two cases.

D

8

Thanks everybody,
That worked.
I will mark it as SOLVED.