[ncl-talk] binary file

[Debasish Hazra]

Thanks Rick.Should I read it as double?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 1:39 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Well, the math works out: 4x384x384=589824.  Further, the last 8 bytes of
> that file do not look like valid floating point values. They are:
>
>  00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00
>
> Do you have reason to believe the data is not being read correctly, or are
> you mostly concerned about the warning message?
>
> BTW - the data are mostly zeros.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:09 AM Debasish Hazra via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to read binary file (attached in the email) through NCL and
>> file size is 589832 bytes. I am reading it as float but it coming out to be
>> 589824. I am not sure what needs to be done to read it.
>>
>>  setfileoption("bin","readbyteorder","littleendian")
>>  d1 = cbinread("./Test/modelout.dat",(/4,384,384/),"float")
>>
>> warning:cbinread: The size implied by the dimension arrays is less that
>> the size of the file.
>>  Only the first 589824 contiguous bytes of the file will be read in.
>> Note dimensions and values may not be aligned properly
>>
>> Any help on this is appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> Debasish
>>
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