Hi.
I am receiving an error when trying to follow the example "Reading data that
is a mix of alpha and numeric characters" at
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/ascii_multicol.shtml
I am counting from "zero," for columns and rows.
Confused.
Thank you for all of your help.
Sincerely,
-Erik
My Ascii file:
Selected parameter: Daily TRMM 3B42(V6) Accumulated Rainfall
Selected area: lat=[25S,35N], lon=[35W,35E]
Selected time period: (01Aug2006-30Sep2006)
Undefined/Missing Value: -9999
Unit: (mm)
Latitude Longitude AccRain
-25.000 -35.000 151.6500
-25.000 -34.500 217.4100
-25.000 -34.000 221.4900
-25.000 -33.500 193.1400
.
.
.
My NCL command line with fatal error:
ncl 86> data = asciiread("./TRMM_SOP3_Daily_Rainfall.dat", -1, "string")
ncl 87> cdata = stringtochar(data)
ncl 88> printVarSummary(cdata)
Variable: cdata
Type: character
Total Size: 1041148 bytes
1041148 values
Number of Dimensions: 2
Dimensions and sizes: [17068] x [61]
Coordinates:
ncl 89> lat = stringtofloat(charactertostring(cdata(6:,0:6)))
fatal:A bad value was passed to stringtofloat, input strings must contain
numeric digits, replacing with missing value
ncl 90>
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