<div dir="ltr">Another option, ditch the " and could even ditch the ' . I think you only need them when you're passings strings in. Which is what you're inadvertently doing at the moment which is why it fails. Below should treat you fine if the vars are numeric. <div><br></div><div>Throw in a print(timeb) at the top, and you'll see at the moment it's of string type using the quotes. <br><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px">ncl timeb=$var1 timee=$var2 timed=$var3 abc.ncl</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div>~Alan</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Mark,<br><br></div>I take it your $var1, $var2, etc., are shell variables?<br><br></div>Try ncl timeb=\"$var1\" ....<br><br></div>HTH,<br></div>Rick<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Mark Chan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cym263@yahoo.com" target="_blank">cym263@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Dear NCL users,</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">I have a ncl script as in the below with name as "abc.ncl", and I would run it as:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">ncl 'timeb="'$var1'"' 'timee="'$var2'"' 'timed="'$var3'"' abc.ncl</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">here var1=31; var2=32; var3=31.5 (this is examples and the values would be calculated)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">The operation above doesn't work, however the following operation works:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">ncl 'timeb=31' 'timee=32' 'timed=31.5' abc.ncl</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">Can one kindly give any suggestion?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">Thanks very much in advance!</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">Mark<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">-------abc.ncl--------------<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">begin<br> time_bnds=new((/1,2/),"double","No_FillValue")<br> write_file=addfile("./<a href="http://rub.nc" target="_blank">rub.nc</a>","w")<br> time_bnds(0,0:1) = (/timeb,timee/)<br> time = (/timed/)<br> write_file->time_bnds=time_bnds(0:0,0:1)<br> write_file->time=time<br>end<br><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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