Possible bug in "tostring" function

 Greetings NCL, Firstly, I'd like to commend you on the wonderful so=
ftware that is NCL. I think it's wonderful. Secondly, I'd like to =
report that I may have found a bug in the tostring function... When I =
round a float using decimalPlaces and then convert that float to a string, =
the string matches the unrounded number instead of the rounded one. nc=
l 0> a=32.328739 ncl 1> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/cont=
ributed.ncl" ncl 2> b=decimalPlaces(a,5,True) ncl 3> print(b) Va=
riable: b Type: float Total Size: 4 bytes          =
   1 values Number of Dimensions: 1 Dimensions and sizes:   [1]=

cl 5> print(c) Variable: c Type: string Total Size: 8 bytes  =
           1 values Number of Dimensions: 1 Dimensi=
ons and sizes:   [1] Coordinates: (0)     32.328739 T=
his behavior only seems to happen with certain numbers, but I can't quit=
e see a pattern as to which numbers are affected. I only need to round t=
o 5 decimal places, so I'm not sure if other roundings can be similarly =

information, I'm using ncl version 6.1.2 on a 64-bit Linux system (I ins=
talled the Debian gcc455 binary). With best regards, Dave.

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Received on Thu Jul 03 09:32:44 2014