[ncl-talk] Using loadscript within a do loop

[Lech Lobocki]

Luke,

and what about using a function or a procedure?

Lech

W dniu 09.06.2016 o 04:16, Luke Osburn pisze:
> Hi,
>
> The do loop that I use loads a sequence of .hdf files and I need to
> run about several hundred lines of code on it. The only alternative
> that I can think of is to have literally a do loop with several
> hundred lines of code in it. Surely there has to be a better way?
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> On 9 June 2016 at 02:55, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu
> <mailto:brownrig at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Luke,
>
>     It looks like what we are seeing is that each call to loadscript()
>     is a directive to load script that is to be queued-up and executed
>     at the conclusion of the loop.  I don't get that understanding
>     from the docs, and I can't say if its intended behavior or not.
>
>     In any case, I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but
>     repeatedly loading a script inside a loop sounds like a lot od
>     duplication and performance overhead.  Is there other way to
>     refactor your code?
>
>     Rick
>
>     On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Luke Osburn
>     <luke.osburn at monash.edu <mailto:luke.osburn at monash.edu>> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I have run into something of a problem. I have a lot of code
>         that needs to run on a lot of data and anticipated being able
>         to use the loadscript function within do loops but it works in
>         an odd way: a much simpler example:
>
>         "Original script"
>         do ray=0,3
>            loadscript("sunshine.ncl")
>         end do
>
>         Where sunshine.ncl is:
>
>         xx=ray*2
>         print(xx)
>
>         The output of this combination of scripts is:
>
>         8
>         8
>         8
>         8
>
>         But I want to be able to use the value of ray in
>         "Sunshine.ncl" as it loops and get:
>
>         0
>         2
>         4
>         6
>
>         If anyone knows how to achieve something like this or a
>         workaround that would be greatly appreciated.
>
>         Regards
>         Luke
>
>
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