[ncl-talk] File Output Suffixes

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi Kacie,

The awkward numbering suffix to the filenames comes because PNG is not a
multi-page/multi-frame file format, so multiple plots to the same
workstation device cause this to happen. Perhaps one solution is to, after
each plot you generate, you could delete the workstation variable (ie.g,
delete(wks), which despite the verbiage, merely causes it to close the
file), and then re-open a new workstation with the textual prefix you want
it to have for the next plot.

Hope that helps!
Rick

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Kacie Shourd <Kacie.Shourd at dri.edu> wrote:

> Hello!!
>
> Just wondering if there's a way to manually define all, or at least change
> a handful of, my output file name suffixes. For example, the current method
> for file naming looks like this:
>
>     wks = gsn_open_wks(wksType,"myFileName")
>
> And output for multiple plots would then be numbered in the order they are
> plotted:
>
>     myFileName.00001.png
>     myFileName.00002.png
>     myFileName.00003.png
>     etc.
>
> Is it possible, in NCL, to have the files come out with defined strings as
> suffixes, such as:
>
>     myFileName.temp.png
>     myFileName.theta.png
>     myFileName.winds.png
>
> or something like that?
>
> Thanks!
> Kacie
>
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