Re: char/string

Oli,

I'm afraid there's no way to do this. I had proposed at one time that
the single ticks be used to denote characters:

     b = '*'

but I guess this causes other problems.

The best thing we can suggest, is to look up '*' in the ascii table
(you can easily google for one) and use "inttochar":

c = inttochar(42) ; 42 is '*' in the ascii table
i=ind(stringtochar(a) .eq.c)

--Mary

On Nov 10, 2008, at 7:46 AM, <Oliver.Fuhrer_at_meteoswiss.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to find the occurences of "*" in a string. I thought an
> elegant way of doing this is...
>
> a="TOT_PREC_HYBY_acc*"
> i=ind(stringtochar(a) .eq. "*")
>
> Now, it seems that NCL coerces the stringtochar(a) back to a
> string, as
> it supposes that "*" is a string an not a character. The way it would
> work is...
>
> a="TOT_PREC_*_HYBY_acc*"
> b=stringtochar("*")
> i=ind(stringtochar(a) .eq. b(0))
>
> I was just wondering, if there is a way of telling NCL that a
> explicitly
> specified variable such as "*" should be a character, and not a
> string.
>
> Thanks,
> Oli
>
>
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