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1/// \file
2/// \ingroup tutorial_tree
3/// \notebook -nodraw
4/// Copy a subset of a Tree to a new Tree
5///
6/// The input file has been generated by the program in `$ROOTSYS/test/Event`
7/// with `Event 1000 1 1 1`.
8///
9/// \macro_code
10///
11/// \author Rene Brun
12
13// Load the library at macro parsing time: we need this to use its content in the code
14R__LOAD_LIBRARY($ROOTSYS/test/libEvent.so)
15
16void copytree()
17{
18
19 TString dir = "$ROOTSYS/test/Event.root";
21 const auto filename = gSystem->AccessPathName(dir) ? "./Event.root" : "$ROOTSYS/test/Event.root";
22
23 TFile oldfile(filename);
24 TTree *oldtree;
25 oldfile.GetObject("T", oldtree);
26
27 // Deactivate all branches
28 oldtree->SetBranchStatus("*", 0);
29
30 // Activate only four of them
31 for (auto activeBranchName : {"event", "fNtrack", "fNseg", "fH"})
32 oldtree->SetBranchStatus(activeBranchName, 1);
33
34 // Create a new file + a clone of old tree in new file
35 TFile newfile("small.root", "recreate");
36 auto newtree = oldtree->CloneTree();
37
38 newtree->Print();
39 newfile.Write();
40}
#define R__LOAD_LIBRARY(LIBRARY)
Definition Rtypes.h:472
R__EXTERN TSystem * gSystem
Definition TSystem.h:559
A ROOT file is a suite of consecutive data records (TKey instances) with a well defined format.
Definition TFile.h:54
Basic string class.
Definition TString.h:136
virtual Bool_t ExpandPathName(TString &path)
Expand a pathname getting rid of special shell characters like ~.
Definition TSystem.cxx:1274
virtual Bool_t AccessPathName(const char *path, EAccessMode mode=kFileExists)
Returns FALSE if one can access a file using the specified access mode.
Definition TSystem.cxx:1296
A TTree represents a columnar dataset.
Definition TTree.h:79
virtual TTree * CloneTree(Long64_t nentries=-1, Option_t *option="")
Create a clone of this tree and copy nentries.
Definition TTree.cxx:3133
virtual void Print(Option_t *option="") const
Print a summary of the tree contents.
Definition TTree.cxx:7203
virtual void SetBranchStatus(const char *bname, Bool_t status=1, UInt_t *found=0)
Set branch status to Process or DoNotProcess.
Definition TTree.cxx:8505
Definition test.py:1