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numAsciiCol
Returns the number of columns in an ASCII file.
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. function numAsciiCol ( file_name : string ) return_val [1] : integer
Arguments
file_nameThe filename to read (can be a path name).
Description
This function returns the number of columns in a file.
See Also
numAsciiRow, readAsciiHead, readAsciiTable, asciiread, asciiwrite, write_matrix
Examples
Example 1
Assume you have the file "test.dat":
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18Then nrow and ncol will be 6 and 3 respectively:
nrow = numAsciiRow("test.dat") ncol = numAsciiCol("test.dat")