[ncl-talk] Can't work with reassign command ':=', and '::' call fortran command

[Alan Brammer]

That operator was introduced in 6.2.1 it won’t work in versions prior to that.  6.2.1 is roughly 4 years old.  There will be lots of missing functionality if you’re stuck on < 6.1. 

To work around, you can replace all := with = and where needed add a delete(fti) or the appropriate variable on the line before. 

delete() will throw an error if the variable doesn’t exist though so you’ll need to go through and decide for each instance.  

You might want to email ncl-install at ucar.edu about your installation problems (or one of the devs might help you out in here). 



Alan





##############################
Alan Brammer,
Post-Doc Researcher

Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences,
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, 12222
abrammer at albany.edu
##############################

> On 17 Feb 2017, at 14:37, Ziyuan Wang <1301111586 at pku.edu.cn> wrote:
> 
> Dear all Users:
> I want to run a ncl scripts written by geos-chem model to read bpch files (read_bpch.ncl attached).
> 1.When I use ncl/6.1.0 or 6.0.0, it can't work with the re-assign operator :=, as error
> fatal:syntax error: line 96 in file $NCL4GC/file_io/read_bpch.ncl before or near : 
>   fti         :
> --------------^
> line 96 in bpch.ncl is "fti         := get_string_from_bpch( inFile, R, 40 ) " (attached 1.error)
> 2. When I use ncl/6.3.0, in our school cluster there's no intel/12.1.5, so I have to load gcc/4.7.2. Then it can't read fortran command. And for model compiling I also need intel fortran.
> fatal:syntax error: line 119 in file $NCL4GC/file_io/read_bpch.ncl before or near : 
>     BIN:
> -------^
> Line 129 in bpch.ncl is " BIN::bpch_hdr1( bytes, c_modelname, lon, lat, halfpolar, center180 )" (Attached 2.error)
> 3.So I'm wondering how can I change read_bpch.ncl code, to make the ':=' work in ncl/6.1.0
> Thank you everyone
>  
> Ziyuan Wang
> <read_bpch.ncl><1.error><2.error>_______________________________________________
> ncl-talk mailing list
> ncl-talk at ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
> List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:
> http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk <http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/attachments/20170217/a4dadd35/attachment.html