fbinseqSwap1

Byte swaps Fortran sequential files (deprecated).

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"  ; This library is automatically loaded
                                                             ; from NCL V6.2.0 onward.
                                                             ; No need for user to explicitly load.

	procedure fbinseqSwap1 (
		in_file  [1] : string,   
		out_file [1] : string,   
		type     [1] : string,   
		dims     [*] : integer   
	)

	return_val  :  file

Arguments

Name of input file.

Name of output file.

The type of the data on in_file (e.g. "float")

A one-dimensional array or equal to the dimensionality of the input data.

Description

Note: this function is deprecated. You can now use the "ReadByteOrder" and "WriteByteOrder" options in setfileoption to indicate how the various NCL binary read/write functions should read and write files.

Byte swaps Fortran sequential files. It requires that all records in the file be the same type and dimension. The user must provide the dimensionality of each record, but not necessarily the number of records. If the wrong dimensions are input, the data will be distorted.

See Also

setfileoption, fbinseqSwap2, fbindirSwap

Examples

Example 1

In the following, N is record length [eg N=1000 , (/nlat,mlon/) ]

   load $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl

   fbinseqSwap1("foo.input", "foo.output", "float",  N)