<div dir="ltr"><div>Please see: <br><br><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/sprinti.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/sprinti.shtml</a><br><br>do y=1,1000<br><span class="im"><br></span> input="/dir/data"+sprinti("%0.4i", i) +".nc"<br></div> f = addfile(input, "r")<br> :<br> :<br><div>end do<br><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Thomas Tobian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomastobian@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomastobian@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>Try this:<br><br>do y=1,1000<br><br>if (y.lt.10) then<br> year="000"+y<br>else if (y.ge.10.and.y.lt.100)<br> year="00"+y<br>else if (y.ge.100.and.y.le.999)<br> year="0"+y<br>else<br> year=y<span class=""><br>end if<br>end if<br>end if<br><br></span>input="/dir/data"+year+".nc"<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><br>end do<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div>Thomas<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Alexander Schaefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschae11@uncc.edu" target="_blank">aschae11@uncc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Just use an If statement.<div><br></div><div>do t = 1,1<br><div><br></div><div>if (t .lt. 10) then </div><div> <font face="Times New Roman">input="/dir/data.000”+t +”.nc”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">else if (t .lt. 100) then</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"> input="/dir/data.00”+t +”.nc"</font></div><div>else if (t .lt. 1000) then</div><div> <font face="Times New Roman">input="/dir/data.0"+t +”.nc”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">else </font></div><div> <font face="Times New Roman">input="/dir/data.” + t +”.nc"</font></div><div>end if</div><div>end if</div><div>end if</div><div><br></div><div>file = addfile(input,”r”)</div><div><br></div><div>end do</div><div><br></div><div>I would set the filename in the if statements and load the file after them; all done within the loop</div><div><br></div><div>Other option is </div><div><br></div><div>ifiles = systemfunc( “ls /dir/data.*.nc”) ; This gets all of your data file names</div><div><br></div><div>nfiles = dimsizes(ifiles)</div><div><br></div><div>do t = 0, nfiles-1</div><div><br></div><div> ifile = addfile(ifiles(t), “r”)</div><div> </div><div> ; Now do your work</div><div><br></div><div>end do</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the latter option is smoother but either should work for the purpose.</div><div><br></div><div>-Alex</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div>On Jul 12, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Kacie Shourd <<a href="mailto:Kacie.Shourd@dri.edu" target="_blank">Kacie.Shourd@dri.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">Hi, Chang<div><br></div><div>I have yet to figure out how to loop through files in such a way using purely NCL. There is the "addfiles" function, but I don't believe that loops through files -- it just pulls in the variables from all files and I'm not sure how to keep things separate. </div><div><br></div><div>I have handled this problem in the past by using a wrapper in an external language (Python, for example), and running things directly from the shell. Looping in other languages is much more straight forward (in my opinion), and shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish. <span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">If you need assistance doing this, I would be happy to lend a hand/provide an example. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">Kacie</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">---</span></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'">Kacie N. 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increment 1):</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://data.0001.nc/" target="_blank">data.0001.nc</a></div><div><a href="http://data.0002.nc/" target="_blank">data.0002.nc</a><br></div><div><a href="http://data.0003.nc/" target="_blank">data.0003.nc</a><br></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div><a href="http://data.0010.nc/" target="_blank">data.0010.nc</a></div><div><a href="http://data.0011.nc/" target="_blank">data.0011.nc</a><br></div><div><a href="http://data.0012.nc/" target="_blank">data.0012.nc</a><br></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div><a href="http://data.0101.nc/" target="_blank">data.0101.nc</a><br></div><div><a href="http://data.0102.nc/" target="_blank">data.0102.nc</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I want to call this data using a loop, something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>t=1,1</div><div><br></div><div>input="/dir/data.000+"t".nc</div><div><br></div><div>but it doesnt work when then zero is reduced infront of the filename.</div><div>anys suggestion how 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