set_default_fillvalue

Sets the default missing value for the given variable type.

Available in version 6.0.0 and later.

Prototype

	procedure set_default_fillvalue (
		type [1] : string,  
		value               
	)

Arguments

Either a string indicating the variable type whose default missing value you want to change, or the special keyword "all" indicating you want to do something special to all the default missing values (see below).

Either the scalar value representing a missing value you want to set, or the a string value for the "all" special behavior you want to change (see below).

Description

set_default_fillvalue allows you to change the default missing value for a particular variable type.

You can use a type of "all" to control the behavior of all default missing values. See the examples below.

See Also

default_fillvalue, ismissing

Examples

Example 1

Set the default missing values for various types:

  set_default_fillvalue("ubyte",   1B)
  set_default_fillvalue("short",   -99s)
  set_default_fillvalue("integer", -999)
  set_default_fillvalue("float",   1.e20)
  set_default_fillvalue("double",  -99999)
  set_default_fillvalue("int64",   -99999I)
  set_default_fillvalue("string",  "")

Example 2 Set all the default missing values to their original values in earlier versions of NCL:

  set_default_fillvalue("all","ncl_v5")

  set_default_fillvalue("all","default")