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numAsciiCol

Returns the number of columns in an ASCII file.

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"  ; This library is automatically loaded
                                                             ; from NCL V6.2.0 onward.
                                                             ; No need for user to explicitly load.

	function numAsciiCol (
		file_name  : string   
	)

	return_val [1] :  integer

Arguments

file_name

The filename to read (can be a path name).

Description

This function returns the number of columns in a file.

See Also

numAsciiRow, readAsciiHead, readAsciiTable, asciiread, asciiwrite, write_matrix

Examples

Example 1

Assume you have the file "test.dat": 

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
10 11 12
13 14 15
16 17 18
Then nrow and ncol will be 6 and 3 respectively: 
  nrow = numAsciiRow("test.dat")
  ncol = numAsciiCol("test.dat")