Re: Error messages: source code line is blank

Dave,

I think you may be up against an off-by-one error in NCL's error
reporting code.

The error may be actually happening on line 104. Can you double-check this
and let me know if this is not the case.

Meanwhile, I'm going to ask the NCL developers about this problem,
because it has happened to me too.

--Mary

> fatal:syntax error: line 105 in file startave.ncl before or near \n
>
> -------------------------------^

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Dave Allured wrote:

> I have a general problem with the NCL interpreter. When I have a syntax
> error in my script, a fairly informative error message is printed. The
> message seems to attempt to show the offending line of source code, a common
> feature in modern compilers. However, the printed line is blank.
>
> Is there a fix for this? A typical session and my uname are shown below.
> Thank you.
>
> --Dave Allured
> CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
> NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division
>
> 36> ncl startave.ncl
> Copyright (C) 1995-2006 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 4.2.0.a033
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> (0) Load ncl scripts
> (0) Load complete
> fatal:syntax error: line 105 in file startave.ncl before or near \n
>
> -------------------------------^
>
>
> fatal:syntax error: possibly an undefined procedure
> fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed
>
> 37> uname -a
> Darwin test909.noaa.gov 8.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.0: Fri May 26
> 15:20:53 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.6.76.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
> powerpc
>
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