[ncl-talk] Not a recognized type

Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal andrew.kren at noaa.gov
Sun Nov 14 20:58:20 MST 2021


Has anyone found a possible workaround for reading a variable from a file
(shapefile) in which the recognized type (none) is not known?

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:50 PM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal <
andrew.kren at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am plotting shapefile data from a shapefile. Two of the variables that
> show up when doing an ncl_filedump have 'none' in front of the names,
> meaning that ncl does not know the type, be it string, float, integer, etc.
> When I tried to grab the variable, not surprisingly I got the error message,
>
> fatal:Variable <Fcst_Date> in file <610temp_latest> does not have a
> recognized type: cannot get value
>
>
> Is there a way to get around this and retrieve the variable? Or am I
> stuck? I tried to look online to see if others had this issue but was not
> able to find anything.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>
> Andrew Kren
> Meteorologist
> NOAA's National Weather Service
> Raleigh Forecast Office
> 1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
> Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
> voice: 919-326-1035
> mailto: andrew.kren at noaa.govhttp://www.weather.gov/rah
>
>
>

-- 

Andrew Kren
Meteorologist
NOAA's National Weather Service
Raleigh Forecast Office
1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
voice: 919-326-1035
mailto: andrew.kren at noaa.govhttp://www.weather.gov/rah
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