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

[Mary Haley]

Hi Dave,

We are moving from JIRA to GitHub for issue tracking (and will be making an
official announcement soon). Would you be willing to open an issue on this
via:

https://github.com/NCAR/ncl/issues

Thanks,

--Mary


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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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