Re: beginning and ending index of a certain color table

I don't know how to directly get the number of colors
without opening a workstation.

If someone does ... please respond.

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Here is one approach:
   wks = gsn_open_wks("x11","test1")
   gsn_define_colormap(wks,"BlWhRe")
   cmap = gsn_retrieve_colormap(wks)
   dimc = dimsizes(cmap)
   nMax = dimc(0)                     ; max colors
For BlWhRe, it would be nMax=103
Hence, the start/end indices would be 2,102(=nMax-1)
You could create a function.
function getNumberColors (wks:graphic]
begin
   cmap = gsn_retrieve_colormap(wks)
   dimc = dimsizes(cmap)
   nMax = dimc(0)                     ; max colors
   return(nMax)
end
Kai Zhang wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Is there a function which can tell me the beginning and ending index
> of a certain color table? I know that we can look it up on the NCL web
> site, but it is always nice to let NCL do it automatically. Thanks!
> 
> Kai
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