<div dir="ltr">Hi Tabish,<div><br></div><div>The error tells you what's wrong. The function 'new' is used to define the dimensions of a new variable and the variable type, not to assign the contents of the array. See the documentation here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/new.shtml">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/new.shtml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>So using your example above, you could do one of the following:</div><div><br></div><div>a = new(12, string)</div><div>a = (/<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">"0530","0730","0930","</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1130","1330","1530","1730","</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1930","2130","2330","0130","</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">0330"</span>/)</div><div><br></div><div>And in the example above, you wouldn't even need to define 'a' with the 'new' function. You could simply assign the array of strings to 'a' without first defining it.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps get you pointed in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Jared</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Tabish Ansari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com" target="_blank">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I am trying to use a string array inside an XY plot. This is to represent time on the x-axis. I am using the following line:<br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">a = new((/"0530","0730","0930","1130","1330","1530","1730","1930","2130","2330","0130","0330"/),string)</span><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">However, I am getting this error message:<br><b>fatal:New: the dimension size parameter is the wrong type an integer value was expected<br><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">What am I doing wrong here?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks in advance!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Tabish<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><b></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br> <span>Bailrigg</span>, <span>Lancaster</span>, <br><span>LA1 4YW</span>, <span>United Kingdom</span></span></font><br></div></div></div>
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