<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="">You can save variables to netcdf with dynamic names:<div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class="">ncdf->$tostring("var"+i)$ = some_variable</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But you can’t have dynamic variable names in the script. The closet would be attaching attributes with dynamic names. e.g.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class="">x = ispan(0,5,1)</font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class="">holder = True</font></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class="">do i=0,5</font></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class=""> holder@$tostring("var"+i)$ = x(i)</font></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class="">end do</font></div></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class=""><div class="">> Variable: holder</div><div class="">> Type: logical</div><div class="">> Total Size: 4 bytes</div><div class="">> 1 values</div><div class="">> Number of Dimensions: 1</div><div class="">> Dimensions and sizes:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[1]</div><div class="">> Coordinates:</div><div class="">> Number Of Attributes: 6</div><div class="">> var5 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5</div><div class="">> var4 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4</div><div class="">> var3 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3</div><div class="">> var2 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2</div><div class="">> var1 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1</div><div class="">> var0 :<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0</div><div class="">> (0)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>True</div></font></div><div class=""><font face="InputMono-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is could get messy pretty quickly though. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Google "ncl-talk dynamic variable names” and you’ll find a bunch of old threads asking similar questions. </div><div class="">It usually boils down to why would you want this? For output there is the method above, otherwise save variables in an array, the names are somewhat irrelevant. Also I imagine trying to debug a script with unknown variable names would be a nightmare. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck, </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="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jun 2017, at 10:01, Michael Notaro <<a href="mailto:mnotaro@wisc.edu" class="">mnotaro@wisc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Is there any way to create new variables with flexible names? For example,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">do i=0,5</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> var$i$= ........</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">end do</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">So that would (if done right) define new variables named var0, var1, var2, var3, var4, and var5.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Michael</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;" class="">Michael Notaro<br class=""><div class="">Associate Director<br class=""></div><div class="">Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research<br class=""></div><div class="">University of Wisconsin-Madison<br class=""></div><div class="">Phone: (608) 261-1503<br class=""></div><div class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mnotaro@wisc.edu" class="">mnotaro@wisc.edu</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ncl-talk mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" 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; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk" 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; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>