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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">fatal:syntax error: function shapefile_mask_data expects 5 arguments, got 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">fatal:error at line 623 in file fourier_analysis_HL.ncl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">In the shapefile_mask_data.ncl, it only lists three arguments though, any idea where went wrong?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">function shapefile_mask_data(data[*][*]:numeric,sfilename[1]:string,\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Rick Brownrigg [mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 06, 2016 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Zhang, Xiao<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ncl-talk@ucar.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ncl-talk] error in shapefile_mask_data.ncl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Xiao,<br>
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Its complaining about the reassignment operator&nbsp; :=&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't recall exactly when it was introduced in NCL, but it was relatively recently, and I strongly suspect it was after ver. 6.1.0.&nbsp; You can work around it by adding these lines at the end of the inner
 do-loop in that section of code3:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; delete(lat_sub)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">&nbsp; delete(lon_sub)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope that helps...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Zhang, Xiao &lt;<a href="mailto:xiao.zhang@pnnl.gov" target="_blank">xiao.zhang@pnnl.gov</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I use ncl 6.1.0 and would like to use function shapefile_mask_data. Since it has not been built in, I use the code provided from the website but got error message. Could you please
 help with this? Thank you! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">“fatal:syntax error: line 158 in file ./shapefile_mask_data.ncl before or near :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lat_sub :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">fatal:error in statement<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">fatal:syntax error: line 159 in file ./shapefile_mask_data.ncl before or near :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lon_sub :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">fatal:error in statement<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Here are the codes I used.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/2014/att-0432/shapefile_mask_data.ncl" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/2014/att-0432/shapefile_mask_data.ncl</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">part of my code
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shpfile&nbsp;&nbsp; = &quot;USA_adm_shp/USA_adm0.shp&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; opt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = True<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; opt@return_mask = True<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;;load self-define function<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; load &quot;./shapefile_mask_data.ncl&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;land_mask_a1 = shapefile_mask_data(dif_a1(0,:,:),shpfile,opt)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Xiao<o:p></o:p></p>
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