[ROOT] Re: I am not clear on to use booleans

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 09:18:54 MEST


Hi Chris,

I do not see any problems with booleans. In the attachment you will
find a variant of the standard tutorial tree1.C with a boolean variable.
You can play with it with the type of selection in your mail.

I take once more this opportunity to request that:
  - the ROOT version number and the machine be specified in the mail
  - also always specify a subject in the mail. This facilitates the archiving
    and the search.

Rene Brun

Chris Roat wrote:
> 
> Hello Rooters,
> 
> I am not clear on to use booleans work in complex (>1 cut) selection
> expressions.  For instance, if I have a tree with 2 floats, floatA and
> floatB, and a bool, boolA, I try the following 4 cases.
> 
> Note: In my tree, all floatB's are greater than zero.  The cut is included
> to illustrate my problem.  boolA's are both true and false.
> 
> a) tree->Draw("floatA", "floatB>0")
> b) tree->Draw("floatA", "boolA")
> c) tree->Draw("floatA", "(floatB>0)&&(boolA)")
> d) tree->Draw("floatA", "(floatB>0)*(boolA)")
> 
> As expected, a) produces a plot of the full tree.
> 
> As expected, b) produces a plot of the tree subset where bool is true.
> 
> NOT as expected, c) & d) produced a plot of the whole tree.  Somehow my
> bool test is not included in the selection criteria.
> 
> What am I doing incorrectly?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Chris

#include "TFile.h"
#include "TTree.h"
#include "TBrowser.h"
#include "TH2.h"
#include "TRandom.h"

// This example is a variant of hsimple.C but using a TTree instead
// of a TNtuple. It shows :
//   -how to fill a Tree with a few simple variables.
//   -how to read this Tree
//   -how to browse and analyze the Tree via the TBrowser and TTreeViewer
// This example can be run in many different ways:
//  way1:  .x tree1.C    using the CINT interpreter
//  way2:  .x tree1.C++  using the automatic compiler interface
//  way3:  .L tree1.C  or .L tree1.C++
//          tree1()
// One can also run the write and read parts in two separate sessions.
// For example following one of the sessions above, one can start the session:
//   .L tree1.C
//   tree1r();
//
//  Author: Rene Brun

void tree1w()
{
   //create a Tree file tree1.root
   
   //create the file, the Tree and a few branches
   TFile f("tree1.root","recreate");
   TTree t1("t1","a simple Tree with simple variables");
   Float_t px, py, pz;
   Double_t random;
   Int_t ev;
   Bool_t boolA;
   t1.Branch("px",&px,"px/F");
   t1.Branch("py",&py,"py/F");
   t1.Branch("pz",&pz,"pz/F");
   t1.Branch("random",&random,"random/D");
   t1.Branch("ev",&ev,"ev/I");
   t1.Branch("boolA",&boolA,"BoolA/b");
   
   //fill the tree
   for (Int_t i=0;i<10000;i++) {
     gRandom->Rannor(px,py);
     pz = px*px + py*py;
     random = gRandom->Rndm();
     ev = i;
     if (i%10 < 3) boolA = kTRUE;
     else          boolA = kFALSE;
     t1.Fill();
  }
  
  //save the Tree header. The file will be automatically closed
  //when going out of the function scope
  t1.Write();
}

void tree1r()
{
   //read the Tree generated by tree1w and fill two histograms
   
   //note that we use "new" to create the TFile and TTree objects !
   //because we want to keep these objects alive when we leave this function.
   TFile *f = new TFile("tree1.root");
   TTree *t1 = (TTree*)f->Get("t1");
   Float_t px, py, pz;
   Double_t random;
   Int_t ev;
   t1->SetBranchAddress("px",&px);
   t1->SetBranchAddress("py",&py);
   t1->SetBranchAddress("pz",&pz);
   t1->SetBranchAddress("random",&random);
   t1->SetBranchAddress("ev",&ev);
   
   //create two histograms
   TH1F *hpx   = new TH1F("hpx","px distribution",100,-3,3);
   TH2F *hpxpy = new TH2F("hpxpy","py vs px",30,-3,3,30,-3,3);
   
   //read all entries and fill the histograms
   Int_t nentries = (Int_t)t1->GetEntries();
   for (Int_t i=0;i<nentries;i++) {
     t1->GetEntry(i);
     hpx->Fill(px);
     hpxpy->Fill(px,py);
  }
  
  //we do not close the file. We want to keep the generated histograms
  //we open a browser and the TreeViewer
  if (gROOT->IsBatch()) return;
  new TBrowser();
  t1->StartViewer();
  // in the browser, click on "ROOT Files", then on "tree1.root".
  //     you can click on the histogram icons in the right panel to draw them.
  // in the TreeViewer, follow the instructions in the Help button.
}   

void tree1() {
   tree1w();
   tree1r();
}



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