Re: How to change name.

Dave,
Thanks for the prompt response. Yes I am trying to make an output file
for each input file. Attach is the code I am using. I am going to try
this loop that you sent to me and give that a shoot. Let me know what
you think.

Cheers,
Erick Rafael Rivera Lemus
Software Technician
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Office: 848-932-3261
Fax: 732-932-8578
Cell: 617-447-5106

On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Dave Allured wrote:

> Erick,
>
> Are you trying to make one output file for each input file? Or
> something more complicated?
>
> You have "time" as an array of 24 times. Just change this to a
> single time, and the next line will make "newfile" into a single
> file name.
>
> time = "0000"
>
> If you have multiple input files for different times, you should add
> a do loop, and process them one file at a time.
>
> nfiles = dimsizes (files)
> do fi = 0, nfiles-1
> current_file = files(fi)
> ; addfile for input; make output file name; addfile for output
> end
>
> If you need more advice, please show us an example of the COMPLETE
> path and file name that you want, for both input and output files. I
> can't figure out this part from your original message.
>
> --Dave
>
> On 8/24/2011 1:43 PM, Erick Rivera Lemus wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to work out how to change my file name. In this example I
>> ingest hourly ASCII files and then I convert those ASCII files into
>> NETCDF. This is an exert of the code. I am not adding the conversion
>> from ASCII to NETCDF of the code, because I know for sure it works. I
>> am only having trouble in the ouput file name. Does anybody know how
>> to ouput and change the folder name and the filename differ from the
>> input folder name? If, so do you know how to change the day and month
>> automatically? If so do you know how to change it so that it would
>> output it with that name.
>>
>> Basically what I am shooting at is to have an automated cron that
>> grabs the recent ascii file and converts it into netcdf file. I know
>> how to do it by specifying the name, but would like to do it
>> automatically. Anybody has any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl";
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl";
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl";
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/shea_util.ncl";
>>
>> 1) HERE IS HOW I INGEST MY ASCII FILES....
>>
>> ; Set path equal to the location of the files
>> pat="/Volumes/lemus/CODAR/totals_13mHz/totals/ascii/
>> OI_BPU_2011_06_28";
>> files = systemfunc("ls " + pat + "* 2>/dev/null | grep '[0-9]$'");
>> print(files);
>>
>> ; exit
>>
>> if (any(ismissing(files))) then
>> print("No files found!");
>> exit;
>> end if
>>
>> 2) THIS IS MY OUTPUT FOLDER/FILE NAME
>>
>> ; Open the output .nc file
>> outdir = "/Volumes/lemus/CODAR/totals_13mHz/totals/netcdf/";
>> fname = "OI_BPU_2011_06_28_";
>> time = (/
>> 0000,0100,0200,0300,0400,0500,0600,0700,0800,0900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,1600,1700,1800,1900,2000,2100,2200,2300
>> /);
>> newfile = (outdir + fname + time);
>> print (newfile);
>> nc = addfile(newfile + ".nc", "c");
>>
>> ; Add the variables
>> nc->lat = latitudes;
>> nc->lon = longitudes;
>> nc->u = U;
>> nc->v = V;
>> nc->verr = VERR;
>> nc->uerr = UERR;
>>
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>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erick Rafael Rivera Lemus
>> Software Technician
>> Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
>> Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory
>>
>> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>> 71 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901
>>
>> Office: 848-932-3261
>> Fax: 732-932-8578
>> Cell: 617-447-5106
>>
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