[Met_help] PointStatConfig syntax error

[John Halley Gotway]

Ann,

You're missing the semicolon at the end of:
mask_grid[] = ["FULL"];

Give that a try.

John


> Here are my settings in PointStatConfig:
>
> mask_grid[] = ["FULL"]
> mask_poly[] = [];
> mask_sid = "";
>
> and I have also tried:
>
> mask_grid[] = ["FULL"]
> mask_poly = "";
> mask_sid = "";
>
> Either way, I get that error message I first reported.
>
>
>
>
>
> John Halley Gotway <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu>
> Sent by: met_help-bounces at mailman.ucar.edu
> 08/14/09 11:15 AM
>
> To
> Ann L Mazuk <Ann.L.Mazuk at aero.org>
> cc
> met_help <met_help at ucar.edu>
> Subject
> Re: [Met_help] PointStatConfig syntax error
>
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>
> Ann,
>
> You should be able to set:
> mask_poly[] = [];
>
> Let me know if that doesn't work.  Do keep in mind that you need to choose
> at least one masking region over which to accumulate statistics.  So that
> means, you need to select at least one thing in
> "mask_grid", "mask_poly", or "mask_sid".  If you'd like to verify over the
> whole domain, set:
> mask_grid[] = ["FULL"];
>
> Regarding the config file GUI, it's still pretty new, and we just haven't
> gotten around to putting a link on the MET website yet.  But we'll put it
> up there.  Thanks for the reminder!
>
> Just let us know if you continue to have problems setting the masking
> region.  And be sure that you're using the version of the config files
> distributed with METv2.0.  The config files are not
> backward compatible.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>
> Ann L Mazuk wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick reply, John.  What if I don't want to set a masking
>
>> polygon?  Is it required that I set a masking polygon?  I did not want
> to
>> specify anything, which is why I was trying to set it to blank.  This
>> seemed to work in v1.1, but not in v2.0.
>>
>> Ann
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "John Halley Gotway" <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu>
>> Sent by: met_help-bounces at mailman.ucar.edu
>> 08/13/09 09:03 PM
>>
>> To
>> Ann L Mazuk <Ann.L.Mazuk at aero.org>
>> cc
>> met_help at ucar.edu
>> Subject
>> Re: [Met_help] PointStatConfig syntax error
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ann,
>>
>> Here's a link to a Point-Stat configuration file from the METv2.0 Online
>> Tutorial:
>>
> http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/online_tutorial/METv2.0/point_stat/PointStatConfig_default
>
>>
>>
>> In there you'll see that it should look something like this:
>> mask_poly[] = [ "MET_BASE/data/poly/EAST.poly",
>> "MET_BASE/data/poly/WEST.poly" ];
>>
>> The '[]' after the 'mask_poly' tells the parser that an array of items
> is
>> to follow.  The array elements should be comma-separated.
>>
>> Let me know if you continue to have problems with this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Halley Gotway
>> johnhg at ucar.edu
>>
>>> I've been running MET version 1.1 and decided to make the jump to
>> version
>>> 2.  However, when I try to run point_stat, I get the error message
>> below.
>>> I'm running point_stat with obs that I created using the ascii2nc
>> routine.
>>>  I looked at line 160 in PointStatConfig and have tried two different
>>> syntaxes (mask_poly = ""; and mask_poly[] = []; ) , but either one will
>>> cause the same error.
>>>
>>> wxdev% point_stat WRFPRS_d02.01 2008040213_AQMD.nc PointStatConfig
>> -outdir
>>> /NWP/software/wxdev/april2008_metv2/ -v 2
>>>
>>>
>>>    config() -> syntax error in file "PointStatConfig"
>>>
>>>       line   = 160
>>>
>>>       econfig_column = 1
>>>
>>>       text   = "mask_poly"
>>>
>>> mask_poly = "";
>>> ^^^^^^^^^______
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>>
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