Re: System Command Not Executing

Michael, I do not see the same results you seems to be getting. Hope you

[dcote ~]$ ncl michael-test.ncl
  Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
Mon Sep 3 21:03:46 CDT 2012
Mon Sep 3 21:04:50 CDT 2012
[dcote ~]$

This is what I see after adding these two lines:
print("showing system date before creating snowd and swe arrays")
  and
print("showing system date after creating snowd and swe arrays")

[dcote ~]$ ncl michael-test.ncl
  Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
(0) showing system date before creating snowd and swe arrays
Mon Sep 3 21:08:30 CDT 2012
(0) showing system date after creating snowd and swe arrays
Mon Sep 3 21:08:43 CDT 2012
[dcote ~]$

On 9/3/12 4:20 PM, ncl-talk-request@ucar.edu wrote:
> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:27:47 -0500
> From: Michael Notaro<mnotaro@wisc.edu>
> Subject: System Command Not Executing
> To:"ncl-talk@ucar.edu USERS" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
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> When I run the script below, the system command, "date",
> is only executed the first time and not the 2nd time.
>
> It seems when I create large arrays, NCL skips over any
> system commands. Any suggestions how to resolve this issue?
>
> Michael
>
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> 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"
> begin
>
> nyr=20
>
> maxt=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> mint=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> pcp=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
>
> system("date")
>
> snowd=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> swe=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
>
> system("date")
>
> end
>
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Received on Mon Sep 3 20:15:37 2012