TFileInfo list / TChain from list of files in a text file?

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Hi,

Is there a preexisting feature which will create a multi-file TChain or TList of TFileInfo* (to be passed to TChain::AddFileInfoList() ) from a simple text file containing URLs:

dcache://some/dir/file1.root
dcache://some/dir/file2.root
.
.
castor://other/dir/fileN.root 
.

Such a routine is easy to write but I want to make sure it’s not there somewhere. Also, will castor and dcache play nice together if in the same list?

mike

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Hi Mike,

we re currently implementing this functionality. It will be available shortly.

Cheers, Fons.

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Dear Mike,

In CVS head, TFileInfo has a static function TFileInfo::CreateList(const char *txtfile) which creates a list if TFileInfos from a file like yours, whose path is given in input.

Yes, there should not be any problem with that.

G. Ganis