Thanks s lot for your detailed answer，the solution is very smart!(*^__^*)<p>在2016-11-10 16:19:12，Hoffman Cheung<a href="mailto:hoffmancheung@gmail.com">hoffmancheung@gmail.com</a>写道：</p><blockquote name="replyContent" style="padding-left: 1ex;margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid #ccc;"><div><div dir="ltr">Sorry for a careless mistake in the previous reply.<div><br></div><div>The do loop should be better starting from 0 in NCL.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#ff0000">izMin = (/.../)</font></div><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#ff0000">izMax = (/.../)</font></div><div style="font-size:14px"><br></div><span style="font-size:14px">do i = 0, 12</span><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#0000ff"> iz = ind(field(0,:).ge.izMin(i) .and. field(0,:).lt.izMax(i)) </font><font color="#ff0000">; define izMin and izMax explicitly before executing the loop</font></div><div style="font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px"> if (.not. any(ismissing(iz)) then</div><div style="font-size:14px"> print("Number of data fall between "+ izMin(i) + " and " + izMax(i) + " = " + dimsizes(iz))</div><div style="font-size:14px"> else</div><div style="font-size:14px"> print("No data can be found for the values between "+ izMin(i) + " and " + izMax(i))</div><div style="font-size:14px"> end if</div><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#0000ff"> delete(iz)</font></div><div style="font-size:14px">end do</div></div><div style="font-size:14px"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-10 9:05 GMT+01:00 Hoffman Cheung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hoffmancheung@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoffmancheung@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Zoey,</div><div><br></div><div>In this case, you may just read the values inside the do loop, and delete the variable at the end of the loop.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#ff0000">izMin = (/.../)</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">izMax = (/.../)</font></div><div><br></div>do i = 1, 13<div><font color="#0000ff"> iz = ind(field(0,:).ge.izMin(i) .and. field(0,:).lt.izMax(i)) </font><font color="#ff0000">; define izMin and izMax explicitly before executing the loop</font></div><div><br></div><div> if (.not. any(ismissing(iz)) then</div><div> print("Number of data fall between "+ izMin(i) + " and " + izMax(i) + " = " + dimsizes(iz))</div><div> else</div><div> print("No data can be found for the values between "+ izMin(i) + " and " + izMax(i))</div><div> end if</div><div><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff"> delete(iz)</font></div><div>end do</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div>Hoffman</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2016-11-10 3:44 GMT+01:00 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xyzheng@mail.ustc.edu.cn" target="_blank">xyzheng@mail.ustc.edu.cn</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><font size="4"><font face="
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