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

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Done.  Thanks for opening up a GitHub system.


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> 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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