[ncl-talk] how to tell readAsciiTable to ignore ^M ? apply dos2unix once or more times

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

NCL Support,

Suggestion.  Please update readAsciiTable and similar text input functions
to automatically recognize and remove both DOS and Unix line endings.
Thanks.

--Dave


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:07 PM, xiaoming Hu <yuanfangcan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Stavros
>
> You are right, if I do dos2unix, I remove one ^M at each line, and do
> another dos2unix and remove the other ^M at each line.
> So to be safe, I probably need to do once or twice dos2unix before
> I readAsciiTable
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Xiaoming
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* sdafis <sdafis at noa.gr>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:58 PM
>
> Hi Xiaoming,
>
> It seems that you are trying to read a file DOS line endings. You must
> convert it to Unix type, so I suggest using a software like dos2unix:
> http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/
>
> There are plenty of other ways of converting the file. Then NCL will read
> the file without problems.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> Στις 2018-11-08 21:50, xiaoming Hu έγραψε:
>
> Hello
>   I have trouble to readAsciiTable   the following data:
> VERSION 03.30^M^M
> 54342 0123.5167 041.7333 0052.5^M^M
> GFE(L)-1 12.2 GTS1 -00262833792 028 0750 0400 2650 1500 352^M^M
> 026.0 026.0 00.0 1000.7 1001.2 -0.5 068 065 03 1^M^M
> 20130714111522 20130714192922 20130714123100 20130714123100 06 06 26985
> 25904 002.00 28.1 1000.7 069 000 000.0 010.0 00 // // 000 10- // // //
> 090.00 -01.00 070.00^M^M
> ZCZC SECOND^M^M
> TimeStep     T            Press        RH           angle        direction
>    distance     delta_lon    delta_lat    xx           xx           xx
>        0.000       28.100     1000.700       69.000       -1.000
> 90.000        0.070        0.000        0.000        0.000        0.000
>   52.000
>        1.000     -999.000     -999.000     -999.000        3.370
> 67.810        0.108        0.000        0.000        0.000        0.000
>   64.000
>        2.000     -999.000     -999.000     -999.000        3.970
> 67.620        0.108        0.000        0.000        0.000        0.000
>   69.000
>
> see:
> ncl 8> data_second = readAsciiTable("Z_UPAR_I_
> 54342_20130712111513_O_TEMP-L.txt.SECOND", 12, "float", 7)
>
> warning:asciiread: End of file reached and only (76173) elements were read
> from the file, filling remaining elements with the default missing value
> for the requested type
> ncl 9> print(data_second(:2,0))
>
>
> Variable: data_second (subsection)
> Type: float
> Total Size: 12 bytes
>             3 values
> Number of Dimensions: 1
> Dimensions and sizes: [3]
> Coordinates:
> Number Of Attributes: 1
>   _FillValue : 9.96921e+36
> (0) 2.013071e+13
> (1) 315
> (2) 70
>
> It appears NCL  treated   ^M^M   as an additional line.
> How can I tell NCL to treat ^M as characters?
> Thanks
> Xiaoming
>
>
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