[ncl-talk] Remove white-spaces from write_table output

swati shewale shewaleswati16 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 00:39:22 MDT 2017 

I am so sorry, I thought the answers given by you was related to question
posted by me. Please ignore this mail.

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:05 PM, swati shewale <shewaleswati16 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hiii
> I did club all the 3 hrly output datafile from wrf output (total 8 files)
> using ncrcat so that i get a single file, which now include 8 time step. to
> handle this processed file, script is available. I hope the way i did might
> be correct one. I am getting the plot attached here along with script.
> please let me know whether it is correct one or not. Thanks to all for
> participation and cooperation. As I am new to NCL, I may post queries
> several times.
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:17 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Maybe a better idea would be to just use a setfileoption that would
>> turn the default blank space into a non-space.
>>  -dave
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi:
>> >
>> > It sounds like you've found a solution, but one should mention that a
>> > fortran write statement (using WRAPIT) is easy to format.
>> >
>> > Barry
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We could certainly do that, but the format string was set up to allow
>> you
>> >> to enter text in additional to format strings, for example:
>> >>
>> >>  i = ispan( 95,105, 1)
>> >>  j = ispan(905,1005,10)
>> >>
>> >>  write_table("example4.txt","w",[/i,j/],"first_%05i second_%05i")
>> >>
>> >> which gives you:
>> >>
>> >> first_00095 second_00905
>> >> first_00096 second_00915
>> >> . . .
>> >>
>> >> Like you said, we would have to choose which special character could be
>> >> used.  I suppose in the case of write_table, you could use
>> setfileoption to
>> >> set or change the special character.
>> >>
>> >> --Mary
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:31 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I am wondering if we could provide a special formatting character that
>> >>> could be part of the format string, maybe at the beginning, and would
>> >>> signal that no automatic separator character be used. Of course which
>> >>> character to use might be an issue, but hopefully that could be
>> >>> solved.
>> >>>  -dave
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> >>> > Fortran (some other languages too!) has the capability to provide
>> user
>> >>> > specified granularity in parsing strings of numbers and characters.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > fortran:   format(i2,5i5)
>> >>> >               2999999999999999999999999999999
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The problem is someone must tell you the structure. You could read
>> as
>> >>> > follows:
>> >>> >               format(i2,i2,i3,i5,i4,i1,.......)
>> >>> >
>> >>> > However, any 'automatic' software must have some separator between
>> the
>> >>> > numbers.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > NCDC has text files the include letters, numbers, periods (76.5) all
>> >>> > together.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > ====
>> >>> > fortran:   format(i2,5(1x,i5))
>> >>> >               2 99999 99999 99999 99999 99999 99999
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Just a comment
>> >>> > D
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Rabah Hachelaf <
>> hachelaf at sca.uqam.ca>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hi Mary and Karin,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Adding white-spaces by default is a limitation if we need to write
>> >>> >> some
>> >>> >> data using a FORTRAN format.
>> >>> >> We could bypass this "issue" by removing one character starting
>> from
>> >>> >> the
>> >>> >> 2nd variable but we would have liked to keep the same format
>> between
>> >>> >> FORTRAN
>> >>> >> and NCL
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Regards,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Rabah
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> 2017-08-10 13:15 GMT-04:00 Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu>:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Hi Rabah,
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I see Karin already responded, and had the same response I was
>> just
>> >>> >>> about
>> >>> >>> to send!
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I'll go ahead and include my response here. I've updated the
>> >>> >>> documentation to indicate this behavior, and also created a ticket
>> >>> >>> just in
>> >>> >>> case.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Unfortunately, I think this is a "feature" of write_table. Even if
>> >>> >>> there's a case for declaring this a bug, we probably couldn't
>> change
>> >>> >>> the
>> >>> >>> behavior because we'd likely break a bunch of existing scripts
>> that
>> >>> >>> depend
>> >>> >>> on the space being there.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I created a ticket on this (NCL-2646), in case it's an issue for
>> >>> >>> other
>> >>> >>> users.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Meanwhile, as Karin pointed out, I think the only way around this
>> is
>> >>> >>> to
>> >>> >>> concatenate the strings yourself:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> int1 = 2
>> >>> >>> int2 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int3 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int4 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int5 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int6 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int7 = "99999"
>> >>> >>> int_cat = int2+int3+int4+int5+int6+int7
>> >>> >>> sounding_check = [/int1,int_cat/]
>> >>> >>> write_table(outfile,"w",sounding_check,"%2i%s")
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> In general, I would caution against writing numbers to a file
>> without
>> >>> >>> any
>> >>> >>> spaces, because this makes it potentially very difficult for
>> somebody
>> >>> >>> else
>> >>> >>> looking at the file to know how to read it.  However, I do
>> understand
>> >>> >>> that
>> >>> >>> some of these files have historically been written this way for
>> other
>> >>> >>> purposes
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> --Mary
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Rabah Hachelaf <
>> hachelaf at sca.uqam.ca>
>> >>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> Hello,
>> >>> >>>> I am wounding why there is a systematic white-spaces between
>> values
>> >>> >>>> although they are removed from the format specifier.
>> >>> >>>> How can i remove white spaces from in this case.
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> Thank you
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> begin
>> >>> >>>> outfile = "test.txt"
>> >>> >>>> sounding_check =
>> >>> >>>> [/2,"99999","99999","99999","99999","99999","99999"/]
>> >>> >>>> write_table(outfile,"a",sounding_check,"%2i%s%s%s%s%s%s")
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> end
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> output :
>> >>> >>>>  2 99999 99999 99999 99999 99999 99999
>> >>> >>>> --
>> >>> >>>> ------------------------------
>> >>> >>>> Best regards,
>> >>> >>>> Rabah Hachelaf
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>>
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>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> --
>> >>> >> ------------------------------
>> >>> >> Cordialement,
>> >>> >> Best regards,
>> >>> >> Rabah Hachelaf
>> >>> >>
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