Re: [ROOT] TNtuple reading

From: Ilia Ravinovich (ravini@wicc.weizmann.ac.il)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 11:17:22 MEST


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Rene Brun wrote:

Dear Rene,

Just saw your mail to Tomasso.

> Hi Tommaso,
> 
> Variables in a TNtuple are of type Float_t not Double_t.
> You have two other problems in your script
>  - never use gROOT->Reset() in a named macro

Why, what could be a problem?

Thanks,

Ilia

>  - the loop index starts at 0, not 1
> 
> You have 3 ways (at least) to check the content of your ntuple.
>  - using teh browser, double click on your variable "p"
>  - use nf->Show(ki) to dump the values of entry ki
>  - use nf->Scan();
> 
> Rene Brun
> 
> Tommaso Chiarusi wrote:
> > 
> > Hello rooters,
> > 
> > According to the userguide, I wrote the following:
> > Note:
> > 1. "vario.root" is the root file in which I have stored my ntuple.
> > 2. "front" is the name of my ntuple (in "vario.root" there are many
> > other ntuples!).
> > 3. "p" is the variable that I want to plot. ("p" is either the name of
> > the TLeaf inside the ntuple "front" and of the variable the histogram I
> > fill with)
> > 
> > The problem I get is that I actually do NOT Get the Entry value, but
> > something like 5.30784e-315!!!!!
> > 
> > Thank you very much!
> > 
> > void plot()
> > {
> > gROOT->Reset();
> > 
> >  TFile *f = new TFile("vario.root");
> >  TNtuple *nf = (TNtuple*)f->Get("front");
> > 
> > 
> >  Int_t entries = (Int_t)nf->GetEntries();
> >  cout<<"Number of Entries: "<<entries<< endl;
> > 
> > 
> >  Double_t p=0;
> >  nf->SetBranchAddress("p",&p);
> > 
> >  TH1F *htp = new TH1F("htp","p",100,0,10);
> > 
> > for (Int_t ki=1;ki<entries;ki++)
> > {
> >   nf->GetEntry(ki);
> >   htp->Fill(p);
> > }
> > 
> > TCanvas *c1 = new TCanvas("c1", "c1",515,210,540,376);
> > c1->Draw();
> > htp->Draw();
> > 
> > //
> > }
> > 
> > Tommaso
> 

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