<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That operator was introduced in 6.2.1 it won’t work in versions prior to that. 6.2.1 is roughly 4 years old. There will be lots of missing functionality if you’re stuck on < 6.1. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To work around, you can replace all := with = and where needed add a delete(fti) or the appropriate variable on the line before. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">delete() will throw an error if the variable doesn’t exist though so you’ll need to go through and decide for each instance. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You might want to email <a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" class="">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a> about your installation problems (or one of the devs might help you out in here). <br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Feb 2017, at 14:37, Ziyuan Wang <<a href="mailto:1301111586@pku.edu.cn" class="">1301111586@pku.edu.cn</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Dear all Users:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">I want to run a ncl scripts written by geos-chem model to read bpch files (read_bpch.ncl attached).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">1.When I use ncl/6.1.0 or 6.0.0, it can't work with the re-assign operator :=, as error<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">fatal:syntax error: line 96 in file $NCL4GC/file_io/read_bpch.ncl before or near : <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> fti :<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">--------------^<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">line 96 in bpch.ncl is "fti := get_string_from_bpch( inFile, R, 40 ) " (attached 1.error)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">2. When I use ncl/6.3.0, in our school cluster there's no intel/12.1.5, so I have to load gcc/4.7.2. Then it can't read fortran command. And for model compiling I also need intel fortran.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">fatal:syntax error: line 119 in file $NCL4GC/file_io/read_bpch.ncl before or near : <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> BIN:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">-------^<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Line 129 in bpch.ncl is " BIN::bpch_hdr1( bytes, c_modelname, lon, lat, halfpolar, center180 )" (Attached 2.error)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">3.So I'm wondering how can I change read_bpch.ncl code, to make the ':=' work in ncl/6.1.0<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Thank you everyone<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 等线;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 等线;" class="">Ziyuan Wang<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><span id="cid:0AC7C990-E8C5-4A43-AB62-B1D36FCC83E0@eas.albany.edu"><read_bpch.ncl></span><span id="cid:026EFF36-F4D1-4A1A-92C9-E563EC9BF15B@eas.albany.edu"><1.error></span><span id="cid:ED2B322D-AA9F-4643-B877-7BDE6F043A26@eas.albany.edu"><2.error></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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