Re: Bug report, subscripting problem

Mary,

Thanks, good to know the fix is in. I do not personally mind the
extra verbosity.

--Dave

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I believe this has been fixed in 6.2.0 already (not yet released), but I have to admit
> that the error message is a little more verbose than I care for:
>
> % ncl
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> NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.0-19Aug2013_0149
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> ncl 0> x = (/ 2, 3, 4, 5 /)
> ncl 1> y = x(:,0)
> fatal:["Execute.c":7807]:performASSIGN_VAR_VAR_OP: Number of subscripts on rhs do not match
> number of dimensions of variable: (2), Subscripts used: (1)
>
> fatal:["Execute.c":8504]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1
>
> ncl 2>
>
> The "verbose" part I'm talking about is the "["Execute.c":7807]:performASSIGN_VAR_VAR_OP" part.
> We've had some internal discussion about this awhile back. It's useful information for the NCL
> developers, but can be confusing for users. I may file a ticket asking that this verbose-ness be an
> option setting of some sort.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Aug 16, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>
>> NCL support,
>>
>> Could you please fix this diagnostic failure on a simple subscripting
>> problem? Old NCL 5.2.1 gives the desired error handling:
>>
>> ncl 0> x = (/ 2, 3, 4, 5 /)
>> ncl 1> y = x(:,0)
>> fatal:Number of subscripts on rhs do not match number of dimensions of
>> variable,(2) Subscripts used, (1) Subscripts expected
>> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1
>>
>> NCL 6.1.2 and NCL 6.2.1 give segmentation fault and no message.
>> Partially tested on both Linux and Mac OS. Thanks for your
>> consideration.
>>
>> --Dave
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Received on Mon Aug 19 11:26:51 2013