[ncl-talk] asciiread

[Dennis Shea]

FYI:  Ed figured it out: He had a text string at the top of the ascii file.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Yang Yang <yang123yang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Adam:
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> I found my problem. The text file contains some string.
>
> Cheers!
> Ed
>
>
>
> On Friday, August 21, 2015 8:33 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Ed,
> First of all, version 6.0.0 is over 5 years old so we highly recommend you
> upgrade to the newest version (6.3.0). This is likely not the cause of the
> issue though.
>
> As far as I know asciiread does not have a limit on the size of the file or
> on the dimensions of the data array.
>
> Does your ascii file contain anything other than float values? Also, what
> happens if you read in the data with a (/-1/) as opposed to (/mn,ml/), do
> you get all the data?
>
> As always when you respond please include the ncl-talk email list in your
> reply.
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Yang Yang <yang123yang at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Sir/Madam:
> I have a text file with 13376 col. I used the following script to read:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mn = numAsciiRow("NIWA_Haast_20140624.dat")
> ml = numAsciiCol("NIWA_Haast_20140624.dat")
> data = asciiread("NIWA_Haast_20140624.dat", (/mn,ml/),"float")
> print(mn)
> print(ml)
> print(data(mn-1,10))
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> After ran the script, I got:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Variable: mn
> Type: integer
> Total Size: 4 bytes
>             1 values
> Number of Dimensions: 1
> Dimensions and sizes:   [1]
> Coordinates:
> (0)     13376
>
> Variable: ml
> Type: integer
> Total Size: 4 bytes
>             1 values
> Number of Dimensions: 1
> Dimensions and sizes:   [1]
> Coordinates:
> (0)     21
>
> Variable: data (subsection)
> Type: float
> Total Size: 4 bytes
>             1 values
> Number of Dimensions: 1
> Dimensions and sizes:   [1]
> Coordinates:
> Number Of Attributes: 1
>   _FillValue :  9.96921e+36
> (0)     9.96921e+36
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The data(mn-1,10) is not a missing value. Actually, more than 100 col
> numbers from the end of the file were not read correctly. What is the
> problem? I used nclv.6.0.0
> What is the maximum value of the column of a text file allowed in asciiread?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Regards
> Ed
>
>
>
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