Ascii file read (and netcdf write)

I'm working with some ceilometer data (Vaisala CL31) in log-file
format. There's some consistent headers with metadata for date/time
and instrument health, cloud layers, etc. One line in each "message"
is a 5-byte hex value. There are 770 or so of these, representing
backscatter intensity values (corrected for range) at the various
range gates in 10m increments.

I've discovered asciiread (and used it successfully before...). I can
iterate through the lines, associate individual measurements with
their associated metadata. That's all trivial. I'm wondering if anyone
thoughts on how to step through the data line and create that array
easily. If this isn't something I can readily do in NCL, I will
address it with python...

Thanks, Gerry
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Received on Tue Sep 18 17:59:32 2012