[ncl-talk] convert string to fortran character

[Dennis Shea]

The question is not clear. Possibly:

times = f->Times
times(0,3) = tochar(tostring(5))
print(times)

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:10 PM Rick Brownrigg via ncl-talk <
ncl-talk at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can convert characters to strings via the tostring() function:
>
>     http://ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/tostring.shtml
>
> With regard to "...change 4 to 5."  I'm not sure what you are trying to do
> there, but NCL is strongly typed, in both data type and array dimensions.
> Perhaps use tostring() in conjunction with a new array name (?)
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:41 PM Zhifeng Yang via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I am reading wrf output which has variable Times as character. When I
>> read it using NCL, the Times variable is still character, not string. I
>> want to change the Times variable using NCL. For example,
>>
>> Variable: times
>>
>> Type: character
>>
>> Total Size: 19 bytes
>>
>>             19 values
>>
>> Number of Dimensions: 2
>>
>> Dimensions and sizes: [Time | 1] x [DateStrLen | 19]
>>
>> Coordinates:
>>
>> Number Of Attributes: 0
>>
>> (0,0) 2
>>
>> (0,1) 0
>>
>> (0,2) 1
>>
>> (0,3) 4
>>
>> (0,4) -
>>
>> (0,5) 0
>>
>> (0,6) 5
>>
>> (0,7) -
>>
>> (0,8) 2
>>
>> (0,9) 5
>>
>> (0,10) _
>>
>> (0,11) 0
>>
>> (0,12) 0
>>
>> (0,13) :
>>
>> (0,14) 0
>>
>> (0,15) 0
>>
>> (0,16) :
>>
>> (0,17) 0
>>
>> (0,18) 0
>>
>> I want to change 4 to 5. I tried
>>
>> times(0, 3) = "5"
>> "5" is a string, not a character. I got the following error.
>>
>> fatal:Assignment type mismatch, right hand side can't be coerced to type
>> of left hand side
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
>>
>> Zhifeng
>>
>>
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