<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div>When I read your code, it is indicated that there are 46 lines of data.<br></div>The ascii (text) file has 12 lines (1 header line, 11 lines with dates)<br><br></div>So ..<br>[a] You included only part of the data<br></div>or <br></div>[b] the 46 in not what you think its is.<br>======================================================<br></div>The attached script and data produce:<br>======================================================<br><div><br><br>(0)    nlines=12<br>(0)    international_no=1517<br>(0)    number_of_dataline_str=046<br>(0)    number_of_dataline=46<br>(0)    name=KILO<br><br><br>Variable: date<br>Type: string<br>Total Size: 80 bytes<br>            10 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes:    [10]<br>Coordinates: <br>(0)    15090118<br>(1)    15090200<br>(2)    15090206<br>(3)    15090212<br>(4)    15090218<br>(5)    15090300<br>(6)    15090306<br>(7)    15090312<br>(8)    15090318<br>(9)    15090400<br><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Tao Lu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hakufu.asano@gmail.com" target="_blank">hakufu.asano@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Shea<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your reminding.</div><div>I have solved this problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is my code:</div><div><div>begin</div><div>;file = (/&quot;bst_kilo_2015&quot;, &quot;bst_etau_2015&quot;/)</div><div>; read ascii data--------------------------<wbr>----------------------------</div><div>lines<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                        </span>= asciiread(&quot;./bst_etau_2015&quot;,-<wbr>1,&quot;string&quot;)</div><div><br></div><div>; read  data</div><div>delimiter<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                </span>= &quot; &quot;</div><div>international_no<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                        </span>= str_get_field(lines(0),2, delimiter)</div><div>number_of_dataline_str<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                        </span>= str_get_field(lines(0),3, delimiter) </div><div>number_of_dataline<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                        </span>= toint(number_of_dataline_str)</div><span class=""><div>name<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                        </span>= str_get_field(lines(0),8, delimiter)</div><div>date<span class="m_4398667200761633525gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                        </span>= str_get_field(lines(1:number_<wbr>of_dataline+1), 1, delimiter)</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Here is my data form:</div><div><div>66666 1517  046 0017 1517 1 0                 KILO              20151013</div><div>15090118 002 7 237 1801  945     090     20060 0040 20150 0100          </div><div>15090200 002 5 240 1798  950     080     90060 0060 10150 0120          </div><div>15090206 002 5 244 1794  950     080     90060 0060 80150 0120          </div><div>15090212 002 5 246 1791  965     070     90060 0060 80150 0120          </div><div>15090218 002 5 246 1785  965     070     80070 0050 70150 0120          </div><div>15090300 002 5 247 1782  965     070     80070 0050 90150 0150          </div><div>15090306 002 5 246 1781  965     070     80070 0050 90150 0150          </div><div>15090312 002 5 244 1777  965     070     80070 0050 90150 0150          </div><div>15090318 002 5 241 1775  965     070     80070 0050 90150 0150          </div><div>15090400 002 5 238 1771  970     065     70100 0060 70180 0120          </div><div>15090406 002 5 236 1766  970     065     70100 0060 70200 0120          </div></div><div><br></div><div>When I run the script, such error appeared:</div><div><div>fatal:Subscript out of range, error in subscript #0</div><div>fatal:An error occurred reading lines</div><div>fatal:[&quot;Execute.c&quot;:8575]:<wbr>Execute: Error occurred at or near line 19 in file best_track_plot.ncl</div></div><div><br></div><div>The problem is at &quot;number_of_dataline+1&quot;.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Tao</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Dennis Shea <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" target="_blank">shea@ucar.edu</a>&gt;</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><div>Not enough information:  What was the error message?<br><br></div><div>Also, including the, say, first 5 lines of the field being read would be useful.<br><br></div><div>Regards<br></div><br></div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_4398667200761633525h5">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Tao Lu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hakufu.asano@gmail.com" target="_blank">hakufu.asano@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_4398667200761633525h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear ncl-talk<div><br></div><div>I wrote some codes to use str_get_field()</div><div>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>----------------------------</div><div><div>number_of_dataline<span class="m_4398667200761633525m_-2614303474947785261m_-608685218396013680gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                         </span>= toint(number_of_dataline_str)</div><div>print (number_of_dataline)</div><div>name<span class="m_4398667200761633525m_-2614303474947785261m_-608685218396013680gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                        </span>= str_get_field(lines(0),8, delimiter)</div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,153,0)">date</span><span class="m_4398667200761633525m_-2614303474947785261m_-608685218396013680gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">                                               </span>= str_get_field(lines(1:<span style="background-color:rgb(255,153,0)">number_o<wbr>f_dataline+1</span>), 1, delimiter)</div><div>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-----------------------------</div><div>Error occurred at &quot;date&quot;.</div><div><br></div><div>Could you give me some advice?</div><div><br></div><div>Yours sincerely,</div><div>Tao</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_4398667200761633525m_-2614303474947785261m_-608685218396013680gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************************<wbr>************************</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">盧 涛 (ル タオ) 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