reading ASCII file

Hi all,

I have an ascii file in the form,

000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031
.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.79500
0031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.795000031.7
95000031.795000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.5680000
31.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568
000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031
.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.56800
0031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.5
68000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000031.5680000
31.568000031.568000031.568000031.568000024.636000024.636000024.636000024.636
0000.............

Description of the file : This is a 2.5 degree Square latitude/longitude
grid, and is usually used for display purposes. The grid is 144 x 72
(longitude x latitude) and has a total of 10368 boxes. 0 degrees latitude, 0
degrees longitude is a box corner. Longitude varies first, and begins at
-180 degrees and proceeds eastward to +180 degrees. Latitude begins at -90
degrees and proceeds northward to +90 degrees. Data is written 80 characters
per record. Each record contains values for 8 grid boxes, each with a field
width of 10 characters. The precision is 3 decimal places.

So I have total 144X72=10368 numbers of values in the file.

I try to read the file using the examples from
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/asciiread.shtml . But I
can read the first value correctly and in case of other values I did not get
the integer part and I got only decimal part.

Someone please tell me how will I read the file and convert the file in
netcdf format correctly.

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

Debasish

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Received on Wed Mar 14 2007 - 17:30:57 MDT