RE: [ncl-talk] ERROR message: input in flex scanner failed

Hi Mary,

truly an odd timing. But I did not run several scripts at the same time, I only ran one script reading multiple files processed the data and saved it to a new file. I am using NCL version 6.1.2. I printed several statements throughout the script and it came all the way to the end where I printed "DONE". The data I wrote to a file also, by a first glance, looked ok.

The question is where does the message come from? Is it a function or does it come from a lower level of coding? Do you use any of the functions that I use? Or do you create and write to files?

I did a search for the message without NCL and I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_lexical_analyser

I'm not sure it will help in any shape or form, because I am not a programmer. But as far as I understand it this Flex tries to convert a sequence of characters to a sequence of tokens. Since NCL is based on both Fortran and C and Flex is a lexical analyzer for C/C++ it might have something to do with that.

Cheers,
Emma

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From: Mary Haley [haley@ucar.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:18 AM
To: Emma Andersson
Cc: ncl-talk@ucar.edu
Subject: Re: ERROR message: input in flex scanner failed

Hi Emma,

It’s odd timing that you reported this problem just hours after I ran into the same thing. In my case, it *did* affect my script as it quit prematurely and not finish the graphics.

I think that in my case, the problem was due to me running a shell script that runs a bunch of NCL scripts, and then running the same script at the *same time*, but using a different version of NCL. I need to verify that this is case, but were you doing anything like that?

—Mary

On Feb 25, 2014, at 3:25 AM, Emma Andersson <emma.andersson@chalmers.se<mailto:emma.andersson@chalmers.se>> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm working with some data processing where I currently create vertical average profiles out of 3D satellite data. I don't think it is necessary to describe the whole script, but rather the main steps and what functions I use before this error message shows up. So, after I have been creating monthly climatology (clmMonTLLL ), averaging to monthly profiles (dim_avg_n_Wrap), interpolating to another set of pressure levels (int2p_n_Wrap) and saved the data to a file I get the error message " input in flex scanner failed".

My data seems to have been saved correctly, but I would like to know what this message tells me and why it comes up and if it affects my data?

Best regards,
Emma Andersson

PhD student
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden
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