[ncl-talk] A comment on an error message

[Barry Lynn]

Thank you.

I figured out the error, but I wasn't sure how to understand what part of
the message referred to which part of the equivalence -- from the message
itself.

Barry

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:33 PM Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

>
> ncl 0> x = *random_normal*(0,5, (/2,3,4,5/))
> ncl 1> printVarSummary(x)                          ; <== ; 4D ==> [2] x
> [3] x [4] x [5]
> ncl 2> printVarSummary(x(:,*1*,:,:))                ; <== ; 3D ==> [2] x
> [4] x [5]
>
> NCL treats a dimension of size 1 as a *degenerate dimension.*
> NCL silently acts like Matlab's  *squeeze*
> <https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/squeeze.html;jsessionid=8cbd8b52c78c9d7954f78b44f7d6>
> function.
>
> HTH
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:31 PM Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am wondering how to read this error message.
>>
>> I actually used three subscripts (1,:,:) when there are four (:,1,:,:),
>> but I am wondering how to glean this information from the error message.
>>
>> fatal:["Execute.c":7863]:Number of subscripts on right-hand-side do not
>> match
>>
>> number of dimensions of variable: (3), Subscripts used: (4)
>>
>> --
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-- 
Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
Senior Associate Scientist, Lecturer,
The Institute of the Earth Science,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: 972 547 231 170
Fax: (972)-25662581

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