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printMinMax

Prints the minimum and maximum values of a variable.

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"

	procedure printMinMax (
		data  : numeric,  
		opt   : logical   
	)

Arguments

data

A variable of any dimensionality.

opt

Provided for backward compatibility; not yet used. Set to True.

Description

The printMinMax procedure prints a numeric variable's minimum and maximum values.

It does not allow for any format control. For limited format control, use the sprintf function for floating point numbers, and sprinti for integers. To "pretty print" 2D arrays, use the write_matrix procedure.

printMinMax is often used with printVarSummary.

See Also

print, printVarSummary, printFileVarSummary, sprinti, sprintf, write_matrix

Examples

Example 1

Print an overview of a variable's contents and the minimum and maximum values.

  f = addfile ("T2m.nc", "r")
  T = f->T
  printVarSummary (T)
  printMinMax (T, True)

The above yields:

   Variable: T
   Type: float
   Total Size: 72192 bytes
               18048 values
   Number of Dimensions: 3
   Dimensions and sizes:   [time | 1] x [lat | 94] x [lon | 192]
   Coordinates: 
               time: [197901..197901]
               lat: [-88.54195..88.54195]
               lon: [ 0..358.125]
   Number Of Attributes: 4
     units :       K
     short_name :  T2m
     long_name :   Temperature (2m)
     _FillValue :  1e+36

   Temperature (2m)    Minimum=224.89    Maximum=308.2