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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Apr 2016, at 13:59, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <<a href="mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov" class="">dave.allured@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Chang,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No, there is no such fuction in the current NCL function library. You could do this by parsing yyyymmdd into 3 integer parts, then call cd_inv_calendar, followed by cd_string.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/date.shtml" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/date.shtml</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, that is more complicated than necessary, and there are side issues. I recommend writing your own function; it should be quite easy. You will still need to parse yyyymmdd into 3 parts. Use sprinti ("%2.2i", dd) to make the day number into a 2-digit string.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Dave</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Xi Chang <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:xi.chang01@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">xi.chang01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi NCL,<br class=""><br class=""></div>is there any a function that is able to convert the calender date with format<br class=""></div>yyyymmdd to dd-month-yyyy? where month is e.g., Jan, Feb etc.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Thank you<span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class="">Chang..<br class=""></font></span></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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