[ncl-talk] Unable to read shapefile attribute table correctly

Rick Brownrigg brownrig at ucar.edu
Tue Aug 5 15:23:05 MDT 2014


Hi Peirong,

Are you able to share those shapefiles, and if so, would you mind sending
them to me?  If they are too big to be emailed, there's our ftp site:

http://ncl.ucar.edu/report_bug.shtml

Thanks,
Rick



On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Peirong Lin <peironglinlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear NCL,
>
> I am using the following NCL code to read a shapefile attribute table
> (which allows further computation), but when I printed out all the
> "COMIDs", they are all "0". But when I open the shapefile in ArcGIS, the
> COMIDs can be correctly shown. Can anybody provide some hints to resolve
> this?
>
>
> *begin*
>
> *shp_file        = "./NHDFlowline.shp"*
>
> *f       = addfile(shp_file,"r")*
>
> *varnames        = getfilevarnames(f)*
>
> *print("varnames = "+varnames)*
>
> *COMIDs  = f->COMID*
>
> *print(COMIDs)*
>
> *end*
>
> I've already made sure the COMID is a variable in the shapefile, but the
> values just cannot be read correctly. Thank you in advance for replying!!
>
> Best,
> Peirong
>
>
> --
> *Peirong Lin* (Ms.)
> Graduate Research Assistant (JGB 5.322)
> Jackson School of Geosciences
> The University of Texas at Austin
> Contact: 512-201-3731
> prlin at utexas.edu; peironglinlin at gmail.com
>
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