Re: reading multiple ascii Tables and plotting

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed May 30 2012 - 10:08:58 MDT

A modified code is attached.

On 5/30/12 9:54 AM, Muronga, Azwinndini wrote:
> Thanks Mary,
>
> I worked!
>
> All the best.
>
> Azwinndini
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> *From:* Mary Haley [haley@ucar.edu]
> *Sent:* 30 May 2012 05:45 PM
> *To:* Muronga, Azwinndini
> *Cc:* ncl-talk@ucar.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [ncl-talk] reading multiple ascii Tables and plotting
>
> In my rush, I didn't pay attention to the fact you wanted one curve per
> file. I thought you wanted them concatenated.
>
> See the latest attached. I will be out of the office for a little after
> this, but Dennis said he would help if needed.
>
> --Mary
> On May 30, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Muronga, Azwinndini wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the revised script.
>> I ran it and I still got the line. I am now attaching the script
>> (version 3 that does the plotting) with the three data files.
>>
>> Thanks very much Mary.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:*Mary Haley [haley@ucar.edu]
>> *Sent:*30 May 2012 05:03 PM
>> *To:*Muronga, Azwinndini
>> *Cc:*ncl-talk@ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>> *Subject:*Re: [ncl-talk] reading multiple ascii Tables and plotting
>>
>> Can you simply drop off that first or last point?
>>
>> See attached modified script. I don't have your files with me at the
>> moment, so I was unable to test the file.
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 30, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Muronga, Azwinndini wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks very much Mary,
>>>
>>> The script has read the data files. When I plot the graphs all at
>>> once in one system of axes I still get the line joining the last line
>>> of the previous data file to the first line of the next data file.
>>> See the attached resulting plot. I guess there might be a simple way
>>> of making the curves as if one is adding them one by one. I'll do
>>> further search on the archive.
>>>
>>> Once again thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Azwinndini
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:*Mary Haley [haley@ucar.edu]
>>> *Sent:*30 May 2012 12:11 AM
>>> *To:*Muronga, Azwinndini
>>> *Cc:*ncl-talk@ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>>> *Subject:*Re: [ncl-talk] reading multiple ascii Tables and plotting
>>>
>>> Hi Azwinndini,
>>>
>>> I'm kind of rushed, but I tried to create a little script that reads
>>> your data. It doesn't require you to strip off the headers first.
>>>
>>> See attached.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>> On May 28, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Muronga, Azwinndini wrote:
>>>
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > I am new in NCL. I have spent the past two weeks figuring out how to
>>> start making some plots. I have 26 ascii data files. I have attached
>>> three of them for an example. The 26 files are outputs at different
>>> times. I would like to plot them in a single plot each curve
>>> representing each file (time). Then I would like to plot selected
>>> times(datafiles) on a panel. I am attaching the ncl script I have
>>> written following some of the examples from the ncl-talk archive. I
>>> would like to make. The script works (if I chop the header off by
>>> hand - since I am unable to read it off) except that becuase I have
>>> concatenated the 26 files into one big file then the curves loops
>>> also because the x-axis of each starts at the same position.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Azwinndini
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