[ncl-talk] reading station data

[Dennis Shea]

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<https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications>*/

Look under* File I/O*

see:    *Read ascii*

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via ncl-talk <
ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:

> Debasish, that is a CSV file with header lines.  Use *asciiread* to read
> the entire file as strings.  Then use string parsing functions such as
> *str_split_csv* and/or *str_get_field* to get individual columns.
> Examples *csv_3.ncl* and *csv4_ncl* are close to what you want to do.
>
>       https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/read_csv.shtml
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 12:38 PM Debasish Hazra via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to read station data with header and column of data, with
>> COlumn lengths are not equal in files and have attached one example file in
>> the attachment.  Can someone help to point what ascii read command to be
>> used to extract time and column information from these files.
>> Thanks
>> Debasish.
>>
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