<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/str_get_cols.shtml"><b>https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/str_get_cols.shtml</b></a></div><div><br></div><div>See Example 3</div><div><br></div><div>The example look very similar to your datasets. Perhaps, the column number need to be changed.</div><div><br></div><div>Good Luck<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:42 AM Geeta Geeta via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi.<br>
My text data file has 11 columns and rows that are variable depending on the file.<br>
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Some columns have incomplete data which I have to fill with -999. I was trying to use str_split_length but it is not working well.<br>
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Can someone suggest how should I do this. <br>
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thanks<br>
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