Re: A bad value was passed to stringtofloat & Subscript out of range

From: Hobbs, Will R (3244-CalTech) <William.R.Hobbs_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon Aug 22 2011 - 14:47:09 MDT

Estefania

The problem is pretty much what the error message describes, I.e. you a passing a string to the stringtofloat() function that is not a number. To clarify

print(stringtofloat("1a")) ; will return the same error message

print(stringtofloat("1")) ; will return a float value of 1.0

Will

From: Estefanía Jiménez <estefaniajimenez.r@gmail.com<mailto:estefaniajimenez.r@gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:40:48 -0700
To: "ncl-talk@ucar.edu<mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu>" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu<mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu>>
Subject: A bad value was passed to stringtofloat & Subscript out of range

Hi NCL users! Please help... I get the following messages while I am trying to run a script.

warning:A bad value was passed to stringtofloat, input strings must contain numeric digits, replacing with missing value
warning:A bad value was passed to stringtofloat, input strings must contain numeric digits, replacing with missing value
warning:A bad value was passed to stringtofloat, input strings must contain numeric digits, replacing with missing value
warning:A bad value was passed to stringtofloat, input strings must contain numeric digits, replacing with missing value
fatal:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0
fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 165 in file make_daily_ts.ncl

Suggestions??

Thanks in advance

--
Estefanía Jiménez R.
Meteoróloga
Departamento de Climatología e Investigaciones Aplicadas
Instituto Meteorológico Nacional
MINAET
Costa Rica
Tel: +506 2222 5616 ext 136

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