<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you Dave and Dennis,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That did the trick. I used both stringtointeger and <span class="gmail-im">fsl_data <b>:=</b> asciiread(input(i),(/nlvl(i),ncol/), "float")</span>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">saludos from a rainy Mexico City,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dave<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:19 PM Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Also:<br><br></div>NCL is a "strongly typed language."<br><br></div>By design, it will not allow an <b>existing array</b> to be overwritten by a new array of a different size. <br>Further, if the new array is of a different data type, it <b>may</b> not allow the existing array to be overwritten.<br><br><div><div><br>fsl_data = asciiread(input(i),(/nlvl(i),ncol/), "float") ; <=== this may change size upon each iteration<br><br>Please use NCL's reassignment operator <b>:=</b><br> <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/varb_assign.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/varb_assign.shtml</a><br><br>fsl_data <b>:=</b> asciiread(input(i),(/nlvl(i),ncol/), "float")<br><br></div><div>D<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov" target="_blank">dave.allured@noaa.gov</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">Dave,<div><br></div><div>The problem is in "nlvl". You are using floats in a place that requires integers only. Change the function call on this line to "stringtointeger". Also, "tointeger" or "toint" would be better.</div><div><br></div><div>nlvl = stringtofloat(str_get_cols(data,13,15))</div><div><br></div><div>--Dave A.</div><div><div class="m_-2468572322604779846h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM, David Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.k.adams@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.k.adams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Hi all,</div><div style="font-size:small">I am using the skew T plot routine. I try to open each ascii file and plot it as a pdf. My file list contains the file name and number of lines (i.e., pressure levels) in the sounding files.</div><div style="font-size:small">filename nlvl<br></div><div style="font-size:small">7_11_00.dat 129<br>7_11_12.dat 122<br>7_12_00.dat 148</div><div style="font-size:small"> etc...</div><div style="font-size:small">I read and open the files this way</div><div style="font-size:small">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-size:small"> filename ="Sounding_file_list.txt"<br> data = asciiread(filename,-1,"string")<br> input = str_get_cols(data,0,10)<br> nlvl = stringtofloat(str_get_cols(data,13,15))<br> ncol =11<br> </div><div style="font-size:small"> do i = 0,47<br> fsl_data = asciiread(input(i),(/nlvl(i),ncol/), "float")<br></div><div style="font-size:small">etc...</div><div style="font-size:small">But I get the following error.<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">fatal:asciiread: The input dimension sizes must be byte, short, integer or long fatal:["Execute.c":8575]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 27 in file test.ncl</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Here is the print out of the variable filenames</div><div style="font-size:small">---------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Variable: input<br>Type: string<br>Total Size: 384 bytes<br> 48 values<br>Number of Dimensions: 1<br>Dimensions and sizes: [48]<br>Coordinates: <br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I am sure this is a simple error, but I am brain dead at this point.</div><div style="font-size:small">thanks in advance,</div><div style="font-size:small">Dave</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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