Re: Question about dashes and underscores in variable names

On Oct 3, 2012, at 10:21 PM, lee mx wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> Could anyone provide a mask file of Mississippi river basin in the
> NLDAS resolution or the boundary shapefile? Thanks a lot.
>
> MX Li
>

See the "mrb.xxx" files at:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Data/#shp

which are used by the fourth example at:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml

--Mary
>
> 2012/10/3 Galia Guentchev <galina@ucar.edu>:
>> Hi, everyone,
>>
>> I received a file with a complicated variable name:
>> gmo_tmax-days_above_threshold, which was not recognized by NCL and the
>> field was not plotted.
>> Then I changed the variable name and made two tests - one with a dash in
>> the name - which did not work, and another with an underscore - which
>> worked and the file was plotted.
>>
>> I was wondering whether you have heard about issues with underscores in
>> variable names or dashes within variable names?
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help on this.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Galia
>>
>>
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