[Tobermory]

I have the following in my fvSolution file:

relaxationFactors
{
    equations
    {
        ".*"            0.9;
        U               0.7;
    }
}

and I want to use foamDictionary to change the values. For the U equation, this is simple, eg:

Eddy$ foamDictionary -entry relaxationFactors.equations.U -set 0.9 system/fvSolution
New entry U               0.9;

but how do I access the ".*" keyword? I can list the keywords for the relaxationFactors subditionary, viz

Eddy$ foamDictionary -entry relaxationFactors.equations -keywords system/fvSolution
".*"
U

and this confirms that foamDictionary thinks that the keyword is ".*". But if I try use this, with quotes to stop the wildcard expansion, foamDictionary spits its dummy out:

Eddy$ foamDictionary -entry 'relaxationFactors.equations.".*"' system/fvSolution
--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
Cannot find entry relaxationFactors.equations.".*"

Any idea how I can access the ".*" keyword?

Edit: ofc, I could do some dirty hacking with

sed 's/"\.\*"/banana/' system/fvSolution

to temporarily change the keyword before using foamDictionary, and then change it back, but that is just plain ugly, and may not work if I use ".*" elsewhere in the dictionary.

[clapointe]

What if you just used sed to replace that entire line? Not as nice as getting foamDictionary to figure out the location for you, but will circumvent the problem you mentioned in the edit.

Caelan

[Tobermory]

Thanks Caelen - yes, that could be a slightly less ugly solution. The good news (thanks to Henry for a quick bug report response) is that the problem is fixed at the moment in the dev version, which clearly has a more advanced suite of dictionary tools. I am just scratching my head now whether I want to (or indeed, can) splice these changes into my v8 distribution, or just live with the ugly hack approach.

Thanks for your input.

[Tobermory]

The answer is - live with it for this patch; the dictionary system has been updated in dev, and will be available in the next major release.