<div dir="ltr">Hi <div>I am reading wrf output which has variable Times as character. When I read it using NCL, the Times variable is still character, not string. I want to change the Times variable using NCL. For example, </div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Variable: times</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Type: character</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Total Size: 19 bytes</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">            </span>19 values</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Number of Dimensions: 2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Dimensions and sizes:<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>[Time | 1] x [DateStrLen | 19]</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Coordinates:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Number Of Attributes: 0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,0)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,1)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,2)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,3)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>4</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,4)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>-</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,5)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,6)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>5</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,7)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>-</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,8)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>2</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,9)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>5</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,10)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>_</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,11)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,12)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,13)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,14)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,15)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,16)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,17)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">(0,18)<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>0</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>I want to change 4 to 5. I tried </div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">times(</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(180,36,25)">0</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">, </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(180,36,25)">3</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">) = </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(180,36,25)">"5"</span></p></div><div>"5" is a string, not a character. I got the following error.</div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:Assignment type mismatch, right hand side can't be coerced to type of left hand side</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Do you have any suggestions? Thank you</div><div><br></div><div>Zhifeng</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>