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Step-by-step guide

In a BUFR message the same key can appear several times in different positions of the message. From ecCodes version 0.13.0 it It is possible to set a key by rank and in the following bufr_filter example the 4th instance of the key airTemperature is set to the value "300.1". The value of the key is then printed.:

set unpack=1;
set #4#airTemperature = 300.1;
print "#4#airTemperature=[#4#airTemperature]";
 
set pack=1;
write;

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It is very important to remember that the key is not encoded back in the data section until the key "pack" is set to 1. At line 5 the encoding is performed and at line 6 the message is written in the output file. The instruction.filters file can be used as follows:

% bufr_filter -o out.bufr instructions.filter in.bufr

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The output file out.bufr will contain the newly encoded value of the 4th instance of the airTemperature key. If in the original message in.bufr the 4th instance of airTemperature is not present because for example there are only two airTemperature keys a "key not found" error is returned.:

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