Re: readAsciiHead

Mary,
Thanks for your email. I tried using ncl.new just now
using "head=readAsciiHead("usa_1_fixed.ascii",8)" and it gives
the the message
"warning:asciiread: one or more strings truncated because NCL maximum
string length (256) exceeded."
When I print "head", it only gives the 1st 256 characters still.
So it seems the limit to 256 characters in NCL is not fixed but the core
dump no longer occurs. So can I still no longer read this dataset
with NCL?
Thanks,
Mike

On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Mary Haley wrote:

>
> Mike and others,
>
> The problem is that the first line of the data file contains a string
> with more than 256 characters, and NCL's strings are limited to 256
> characters. We fixed this problem shortly after the latest version
> (a033) was released, so that you will get a warning message instead
> of a seg fault.
>
> Meanwhile, since you are on an NCAR computer, you can use "ncl.new" on
> tempest, which contains the latest version of NCL. It is there for
> test purposes only.
>
> If anybody else needs a fix to this problem, you can email me
> directly and let me know what kind of system you have.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael Notaro wrote:
>
>> Mary and David,
>>
>> On tempest, NCL is running off /contrib/bin/ncl .
>>
>> The dataset that I ultimately want to read is /ptmp/notaro/tree/
>> usa_1_fixed.ascii .
>> The first 8 rows are the header and the remaining rows are the
>> data values.
>> I want to read the station IDs in row 1, species in row 3,
>> elevations in row 4,
>> latitudes in row 5, and longitudes in row 6, along with the data
>> values in rows
>> 9-909 (for years 1100-2000).
>>
>> I could always write a fortran code to read this data but was
>> hoping to use NCL
>> if it is able to handle the data. Is it worth trying in NCL still?
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their help.
>>
>> Mike
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