Help with reading in multiple files to continue through errors

> Hi,
>
> I am reading variables into an array from in a large set of *.nc files.
> These files were generated from a set of simulations where some worked, and
> some didn't. In the simulations that didn't, I want ncl to keep the
> missing values (-9999) for that spot in the array and continue to the next
> file. How do I tell ncl to keep going after a file variable input
> failure:
>
> fatal:["Execute.c":5609]:
> variable (XYZ) is not in file (ncdf_file0)
>
>
> and the example script:
>
>
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>
> begin
>
> nfiles = 5000
>
> ;**********************************************
> ; Create variable arrays
> ;**********************************************
> zztop = 96 ; max height to plot
> zz = ispan(20,3820,40)
> day = (118.5-117.5)/144
> t0 = ispan(0,143,1)*day + 117.5
>
> dfe = ispan(1,nfiles,1)
>
> XYZ0 = new((/zztop,dimsizes(t0),dimsizes(dfe)/), float, -9999)
>
> ;**********************************************
> ; Loop over files to create plots
> ;**********************************************
>
> do h=0,dimsizes(dfe)-1
>
> filename(h) = "myfile" + h + ".nc"
> ncdf_file0 = addfile(filename(h),"r")
>
> do i=0,dimsizes(t0)-1
> do j=0,zztop-1
> XYZ0(j,i,h) = ncdf_file0->XYZ(i,j) ; XYZ var
> end do
> end do
>
> end do
>
> end
>

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Received on Wed Aug 1 11:53:59 2012